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Elias is a manufacturing printer as well as a publisher, has one entire company devoted to the printing of outdoor advertising posters. Last week, while he lay ill of a gastric complaint in a nursing home, Fleet Street learned that Elias had outbid Beaverbrook and Rothermere, had bought for a reputed ?600,000 cash controlling interest in British Illustrated Group. He thus took over control of the cut-glass society weeklies Tatler, Bystander, Sphere, as well as the Illustrated London News, Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News and the monthly Britannia...
There is some alarm lest the talks will develop into rivalries, with the instructors trying to outbid the other to get the customers. The possibilities of such competition are immense. Discounts and premiums would be part of the sales drives, and the departments could lure the trade with guarantees of minimum marks and maximum hours. If there is any tendency--and there may well be one--for the speeches to resemble the official catalogue, some of the Confidential Guide tricks will come in handy. Each instructor might be followed by seniors just through the particular mill, who would spend...
...biggest single item in what many a dealer considered the most important sale of Old Masters' drawings ever held. Bidding with minute, professional nods, Lord Duveen and more than 200 other experts and spectators saw the 460 Oppenheimer drawings knocked down in three afternoons for some $500,000. Outbid by Lord Duveen on the Foucquet portrait, Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries got a Study of San Sebastian by Filippino Lippi for $6,825. London's Colnaghi & Co. paid $21,525 for Leonardo da Vinci's tiny Rider on a Rearing Horse...
...beloved treasure of "The Sailor King" who expressly commanded that she should be sunk and not used for any charitable purpose after his death. The late King's sailing master, Sir Philip Hunloke, tried to buy the Britannia's mainsheet, 70 fathoms long, but souvenir hunters outbid him. Prices also proved too high for Captain Turner, long-time skipper and yachting favorite of King George. He watched while $20 was paid for a boathook, $160 for the Britannia's red & green sidelights, and $1,500 by an enthusiastic ex-M. P. for her 18-ft. motor launch...
...family from "interfering in the conduct of the business." Spry, 78-year-old Mrs. Aroline Chase Pinkham Gove, Lydia Pinkham's only living daughter, countered by asking the Supreme Court of Maine, where the company is incorporated, to appoint a receiver for the company, planning to outbid her nephews when the business was put on the block. Last month the first round went to the Pinkham grandsons when a Massachusetts judge decided that their suit for a permanent injunction should be heard first...