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...news that his new owners were not the Wideners, Woodwards and Whitneys who usually import great European stallions, but a syndicate of four young men, all under 35: Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Sylvester Labrot Jr., James Cox Brady Jr. and Walter P. Chrysler Jr. Alfred Vanderbilt is no tyro at either raising or racing thoroughbreds. Six years ago, on his 21st birthday, he inherited his mother's magnificent stud farm and racing stable, invested half a million or more in Pimlico and Belmont Park race tracks, is well on his way to becoming America's No. 1 turfman. Young...
...Meanwhile a determined young woman hustled out of her third-row seat and trailing her foxy furs, headed backstage. She was, as most of the audience knowingly noted, darkling Elaine Barrie, the lipsticky, 25-year-old tyro-wife whom 57-year-old John had spanked out of My Dear Children's ingénue lead and into the divorce courts last April...
After the Hollywood press preview, Producer Selznick stood in the lobby, scanning the faces of the "toughest audience in the world" with as much eager ness as any tyro at his own first play...
...paper Harvard University looks like a snap to navigate. Actually the office buildings, stores, and fruit stands which press about the University make the problem no cinch for the tyro who cannot distinguish between the Cambridge Trust Company and Holyoke House...
...such was Chesapeake & Ohio, which last week reported 1938 earnings of $20,192,650 ($34,034,269 in 1937). Ownership of that rich property is well worth fighting for. During the last year a bitter dogfight has raged between the potent Guaranty Trust Co. and a group of tyro financiers headed by Robert R. Young. Chief bone of contention has been Chesapeake Corp., the holding company created by the Van Sweringen brothers to acquire a 51% interest in the C. & 0. Last week, as Wall Street had long anticipated, the bone was finally buried-in Guaranty's yard...