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First night's prices, $356,260 for 89 lots, so encouraged agents of the Marquess of Lothian that they considered it likely that he would send to the U. S. for sale a collection of fine furniture and paintings from his two estates, Blickling Hall, Norfolk, and Newbattle Abbey, Midlothian. The Marquess is better known to U. S. citizens as Philip Henry Kerr, lecturer and onetime private secretary to David Lloyd George. He was a member of last summer's Round Table Conferences on India. Second cousin to the Duke of Norfolk, he succeeded to his title last...
...Levy did his work on Fisk for Richard H. Swartwout, chairman of the new board, who once described himself as a "selector of presidents." During his investment banking days he helped reorganize many a defunct or tottering enterprise: Union Bag & Paper Corp., American-La France Fire Engine Co., Norfolk Southern Railroad, Intertype Corp., Dictaphone Corp., Ansco Photo-products, Inc. Twice he and his friends had working control of Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, sold out both times at a profit. Backer Swartwout said Fisk's plans for a new selling campaign would not be ready for several months...
Augusta, Ga. 41.4 Norfolk...
Died. Constance, Lady Battersea, 88, grande dame of the British House of Rothschild, daughter of Sir Anthony de Rothschild who stemmed from the original Frankfort family; in Overstrand, Norfolk, England. A philanthropist, temperance worker, Lady Battersea was a friend of Queen Victoria, Queen Alexandra, Gladstone, Disraeli, Palmerston...
...Geography on Monday and Tuesday at 3.15 o'clock. They portray the voyage of the Harvard Juniors on the destroyer U. S. S. Tillman from Boston to Bermuda, and the trip of the Sophomores and Freshmen of Harvard, Georgia Tech., North-western, and Yale from Boston to Halifax and Norfolk on the U. S. S. Arkansas; admission is free to all members of the University...