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...Shopping in Vienna this week, the Duke ordered stationery marked with his initials encircled by a garter and the Order's mono...
...years ago fancy pheasants were as rare in the U. S. as the four-volume mono graph on Pheasants, Their Lives and Homes-by William Beebe, published in 1918-22 at $250 per set and now a collec tor's item at $750. Brilliantly-plumed birds could be seen on the lawns of ty coons like Bethlehem Steel's Eugene Grace, but to most citizens a pheasant was only a long-tailed wild bird useful for sport and food. Now Naturalist Beebe's definitive work has been re-issued in one volume at $3.50* and pheasant raising...
...Acquired by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum and considered "the most important purchase of a single piece of art ever made by the museum" was (1 The Artist's Mother-Whistler, 2 American Gothic-Wood, 3 Mono. Lisa-da Vinci, 4 The Card Players-Cezanne, S Venus and the Lute Player-Titian...
Having been convicted fortnight ago of criminal negligence in the burning of the T. E. L. Mono Castle, the defendants last week received the following sentences: Acting Captain William F. Warms, two years in jail; Chief Engineer Eben Starr Abbott, four years in jail; New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Co., a fine of $10,000; its executive Vice President Henry E. Cabaud, a fine of $5,000, a suspended sentence of a year in jail...
...stories about New York's numbers game, roughly coincided with Exclusive Story's premiere in Manhattan last week. The revelations range from the not particularly astounding information that racketeers browbeat small shopkeepers and sometimes shoot each other, to the more alarming but less plausible hypothesis that the Mono Castle (called in the picture the Mochado} was ignited by a shipload of liquid fire owned by a Manhattan crime cabal...