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Biggest example of the new financing technique is the 45-story, 1,600,000-sq.-ft. Socony Mobil Building across from Grand Central Terminal. On the basis of plans drawn by Architects Wallace Kirkman Harrison and Max Abramovitz, Real-Estate Men Peter Ruffin and John Galbreath got Socony Mobil to sign a letter of intent for a 25-year lease on nearly half the proposed building. They took the plans and tentative leases to the Equitable Life Assurance Society, which put up $37.5 million in principal financing for the building. Next month the Socony Mobil Building, world's largest...
...Giles, had bought Rosenow Ranch, a scraggly, 10,114-acre tract in Kinney County, Texas for $162,500, sold it to the state a year later for $353,000. Giles admitted he had raised the state appraiser's valuation of the land $5 an acre. L. V. Ruffin, a Brady real-estate dealer, testified that he had traveled in Sheffield's Cadillac to California, Mexico, Chicago and New Orleans to get signatures of eligible veterans who had moved out of Texas...
...give, as Ed Ruffin did, often meant to give up. Ed began by giving up college. When his father died he went home to North Carolina, to take care of the plantation and his spinster aunts. As a result, he also gave up the girl who might have married him as a lawyer but not as a farmer. In his loneliness, Ed married an older woman who could not give him a child. When she died he got married again, this time to a world-worn divorcee with a small...
Unwittingly, his new wife saddled him with a crew of relatives who abused his generosity and lived a life of deadbeat ease. But it never seemed to occur to Ed Ruffin to bemoan his fate, take to hard drinking, or quit on life in any of the other established fashions. To the Negroes on his plantation he became "Mr. Ed," a man of justice. To the women of his family he spelled security without servility. In a sense, he has given his life for his family and friends, yet it is only on the day of his death that...
...Ruffin seems almost too good to be true, so does the novel which makes him believable. Author Pierce, a 42-year-old English teacher at Tulane University, has caught the small moments with big implications that many a writer loses between the lines...