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...those five years he has bought control of 80-year-old Sprague, Warner & Co. of Chicago, of Western Grocer Co., and of Marshall Canning Co. Last week for $7,000,000 he bought control of 92-year-old Reid, Murdoch & Co. and set up Consolidated Grocers Corp. to own and run his combine. He expects it to do $100,000,000 a year of the nation's $5 to $12 billion wholesale grocery business (depending on whose figures you prefer...
...Last February he took a vacation in Palm Springs and one day rode horseback so hard that he developed a sore, which turned into a carbuncle. Still laid up (when he returned to Chicago), he had to miss a cocktail party given by Horace Armstrong, president of rival Reid, Murdoch. Afterward, when Armstrong called to tell him about the party, Nate asked, "I don't suppose you'd be interested in selling Reid, Murdoch...
...Apamama Island in the Gilberts Correspondent "Pepper" Martin found dusky Agnes Murdoch and her nieces reading TIME, learned with some surprise that Agnes reads TIME cover-to-cover each week-see cut. (Half-Polynesian, half-English Mrs. Murdoch studied for seven years at the Sisters of Mercy convent in San Francisco-is the mother of four sons, one of them Chief of Apamama...
...more than slightly perturbed when Coach Johnny Chase appeared at the play-off of the Yale game Chesterfielded and carnationed, but without a black derby--an added touch saved for the Yale game and sacred to Julian. Chase's light brown fedora saw the Crimson win, though. Murray Murdoch (ex-Ranger puckster who coaches the Blue) had on a natty gray fedora with a gray, pin-striped suit...
...these two sessions, the squad has drilled on two things: getting the puck away from the Harvard cage after shots, and penetrating two, three, and five man defenses. Efficiency in these two departments would have made the difference last time, and unless Murdoch has a lot more unpredicted tricks up his sleeve, that should do the trick tomorrow night...