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...took the tuxedoed auctioneer 2¾ hours to sell 60 sleek thoroughbreds for a record $1,553,500. The setting was impressive; a pale half-moon hung over the infield at Santa Anita; there were as many rows of press tables as at a heavyweight fight. Powerful spotlights flooded the auction ring in front of the clubhouse, making the horses nervous as they were led in one by one, numbers glued to their hindquarters. Everybody who amounted to anything in Southern California's racetrack and cinema industries (an almost interchangeable cast of characters) was there...
...display Britain's manufacturing prowess. In Portsmouth harbor, Britain's vastest, newest battleship, the 42,500-ton Vanguard, was laden with three vanloads of baggage, a refrigerator freight car full of choice game. Five Vickers Viking planes equipped with the latest safety gadgets, four dozen or so sleek, new Daimler, Austin and Humber motorcars, a 14-coach, ivory-and-gold train, complete with telephones, offices, kitchens, salons and armor-plate windows had been shipped ahead. The Vanguard herself was tricked out with curtains, carpets, elaborate apartments for the royal travelers, and a special platform on which they could...
...deal goes through, Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill will occupy a guest cottage, join Greenwich's sleek confraternity of daily commuters to Manhattan. Vacationing missionaries and other visitors will lodge in the 40-room, ten-bathroom main house. The new center will be called Seabury House (after Samuel Seabury, first president of the Episcopal House of Bishops...
...chamber sat: the U.S.'s Old Germany Hand Robert Murphy and Austria's Military Governor General Mark Clark; Britain's Sir William Strang and Sir Samuel Hood (who, as No. i civilian official in the British zone, is Murphy's opposite number); France's sleek, conciliatory Maurice Couve de Murville; Russia's deadpan, English-speaking Fedor Gusev, and Byelorussia's Kuzma Kiselev...
...people who attended the opening of the first postwar National Motor Boat Show in Manhattan last week hoped to be dazzled by sleek new dreamboats. But what they saw amid the pillars of the Grand Central Palace looked very much like the models they had seen there in 1940, at the last show. Those who looked sharp, however, could find some improvements and a few new models...