Word: owners
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There have also been width problems. Harvard tried to buy the adjacent land for $100,000; but the owner, a college teacher and former Harvard M.A., refused to sell unless Harvard gave him an honorary Ph.D. "The owner," Babcock said, "refused to leave his house as long as the tree in front of it stood that tree. But the University may get the property soon. The tree died last summer...
Four times last year, Bret broke the magic 2-min. mark for the mile. He won 24 races and $173,298, became the first two-year-old ever voted Harness Horse of the Year. Owner Downing recently turned down an offer of $850,000 for Bret. "If I took the money," he explained, "I might blow it all on some silly mining stock. Then where would I be?" As it is, the pickings are nothing to complain about. Bret's victory in the Matron Stake was worth $10,717, bringing his winnings so far this year...
Paintings & Pills. Mary Lasker has been interested in art ever since she was a girl. Daughter of a well-to-do Wisconsin banker, she majored in art history at Radchffe, topped it off with a term at Oxford. She moved to New York to sell paintings for Gallery Owner Paul Reinhardt, whom she eventually married in 1926 (they were divorced in 1934). In 1940 she married Millionaire Chicagoan Albert D. Lasker, who headed Lord & Thomas, then one of the top U.S advertising agencies. Through Mary, Lasker discovered the world of art,' and together they began to amass their fine...
...modestly successful department-store owner who dabbled on the side in real estate and a steel products company in Portland, Ore., he inherited from his father a photographic memory and the ability to add or multiply multiple figures rapidly. He was an indifferent student who enjoyed history and arithmetic but disliked the rote of learning. He pointedly read novels during class...
Privileged Many. Who are the privileged many who buy luxury cars? The average Continental owner, Ford's Lincoln-Mercury division discovered in a recent survey, is 54 years old, earns $25,000 a year, and has completed more than two years of college. Nearly two-thirds of Continental owners are managers, proprietors or professional men. Even more impressive: although Continentals can cost as much as $8,500, 81% of the customers pay for them in cash...