Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neck & neck down the stretch last week, battling to be the year's top money-winning racing-stable owner, came two beauty specialists: Cosmetician Elizabeth Arden and Movieman Louis B. Mayer. Arden's Star Pilot won the Belmont Futurity and $52,940. Mayer's Busher won the Hollywood Derby and $40,470 (to become the alltime tenth best moneywinner*). The dollar derby between the stables stood: Mayer $452,605, Arden...
Regarding her more as a broodmare than a racer, Moviemaker Louis B. Mayer bought Busher from Kentucky-Colonel...
...Bradley this spring for $50,000. Now, with her record winnings, Busher's tomboy days are numbered. Mayer hopes that she will get motherly after she is bred to his 18-year-old Australian stallion, Beau Pere, next year...
...Howard, 45, wife of a British-born mining engineer. Her novel Before the Sun Goes Down, a story of a Pennsylvania town in the 1880s, will be published early next year-as the winner of both the $20,000 Doubleday, Doran Novel Contest and the $125,000 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Annual Novel Award. The $145,000 is not the end of Mrs. Howard's windfall. M.G.M. will pay her up to $50,000 more if her book becomes a best-seller -and may offer her a writing contract to boot...
Wednesday, Rank journeyed out to M.G.M. to have chicken sour with M.G.M.'s Mayer. (Even when M.G.M. production has been off, Mayer's chicken sour has maintained a uniformly high quality.) Gently, Mayer probed at the reason for Rank's visit. Gently, Rank turned the talk back to horse racing...