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Ever since the death of Owner Jacob Ruppert six years ago, the New York Yankees had been on the auction block. Many a would-be buyer (Jim Farley was the most notable), had nibbled halfheartedly, but none ever made a solid bid. Last week it finally happened: the Yankees changed hands-and personality...
...issue. Mrs. Lou Gehrig and Oilman Ray Ryan of the Ward group had put in their bid for the Stadium, would consider Randalls Island, threatened to play pro football in the Plaza Hotel ballroom if all else failed. The Meehan faction, boasting a family tie-in with the Ruppert heirs, professed to have the inside track, would bow out quietly if their bid for the Stadium failed. The Payne group was just hoping...
Operating at Revere were Red Naddy, Dick Mounts, Tom Morton, and Bill McCracken. Limiting their activities to Ruppert and roller coasters, they had a picture taken at a bar just to prove that you can stand erect and not astride someone at some places in this park...
...Harry Fisher gets away from his desk at the Jacob Ruppert Brewery enough afternoons to keep his weight within five pounds of Williams days. Tennis and business golf are his main methods. "I'm no good at bowling," he says, although a lot of bowlers would be pleased to average 200 as he does. The only sport at which he is really poor is swimming...
...Orlo E. Ruppert, 20, of Nokomis, Montgomery County, Ill., who in seven years raised 135 ewes and lambs, 169 sows and pigs and more than 2,000 fowl; earned $13,243; won 38 championships. A high-school graduate, he is now in a vocational agriculture class...