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Kentucky's bluegrass country is a fertile region, some 80 miles across, in the rolling foothills of the Alleghenies. Official spokesmen of the bluegrass country are the Lexington Herald and Leader. Both owned by rotund, ribald little Publisher John George Stoll, 62, who distilled a fortune out of bluegrass whiskey, the morning Herald (circulation, 18,876) is for Roosevelt, evening Leader (22,119) for Willkie. But on one question Publisher Stoll's papers are agreed: that bluegrass horses nave no peers...
Fortnight ago the Herald in its pride made an announcement: on every day that some bluegrass-bred horse failed to win a race on a recognized mile track, the Herald would give away free its entire edition. Approximate cost to the Herald: $400. Publisher Stoll's pledge had stood for seven days at days at last week's end- and the Herald had given away no papers...
...appointed successor: tall, careful Clarence Griffith Stoll, who at 56 has been vice president in charge of Western Electric's operations for eleven years...
...Martin's Lane, London, once saucy Nell Gwynn's bedroom, trooped sober-faced British corporation executives last week. Anxious to comply with the forthcoming Civil Defense Bill, which will require camouflage for factories and public utility works, they came to consult Mr. Frederic Stafford, art director of Stoll Theatres Corp., Ltd. Mr. Stafford heads a group of noted stage designers whose new business is to fool enemy bombers into thinking that a power plant is a church, or an airfield a picturesque village...
...Dennis Stoll, U. S.-hating young British composer, received permission from Queen Elizabeth to dedicate to Princess Margaret Rose a suite for strings and harp. The four movements are entitled: To Her Hands in Prayer, To Her Feet in Dance, To Her Heart in Beauty, To Her Infinite Variety...