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...purveyor of Cupid's Breath (and 300 other pretty-smelling beauty products) is in racing for the sport, but she has made a business of it. Last year she plunked down a staggering $315.000 for ten fancy-bred yearlings; her two-year-olds copped just about every big stake for horses their age. She finished up the season as the nation's top money winner-with earnings of $589,170-even though she objected to her "little darlings" wearing blinkers because they didn't look pretty, and forbade jockeys to whip the darlings during a race...
...daily newspapers in the U.S., a great many make money. Some are also good newspapers. One is the Dallas News. As a painstaking purveyor of the news and a slave-driving civic conscience, it is almost as deep in the heart of Texas as the Alamo...
...heir to Belle Heloise is not his father's son, but his father's sister's bastard. Even stern Madame Mere accommodates herself wisely to the marriage of her daughter to the son of The River Road's "Dago peddler" (who becomes a millionaire purveyor of fancy groceries), and her granddaughter's marriage to the pilot of a river tug. For under the conventions is a shrewd stockbreeder's intuition that blood lines are strengthened by a little exogamy. If The River Road sometimes seems as long and leisurely as the Mississippi, it also...
Since the Japanese surrender last August, Generalissimo Chiang's Government has cracked down on opium dens in Peiping and Tientsin, ordered the destruction of poppy fields. All addicts must give up the habit in eight months or suffer severe punishment. A grower of poppies, a purveyor, or a pill-smoker caught in his third offense may be punished by death...
Milton S. Hershey, purveyor of chocolate bars and philanthropy (some $60,000,000 worth to orphans), observed his 88th birthday in the Pennsylvania town that bears his name, and revealed his own rich recipe for success: "Late to bed and late to rise...