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...opening of the novel in 1906, the older Barons are tired of carrying on the business and the company is about to be sold to a competitor. Impetuous young Stuart Baron, who has been managing the mills, maneuvers the elder clansmen into agreeing to sell to the highest bidder, then makes the highest bid himself. The elders agree to the coup, provided he will take two cousins into the business as balance wheels. The three of them-headstrong Stuart, flamboyant Raoul, a promoter and organizer, and cautious David, a slick man with figures-proceed to gobble small powder companies...
Queen Mary's million-stitch needlepoint rug, after three months of exhibition in the U.S. and Canada, was sold last week to the highest bidder: Canada's Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire, which offered 100,000 Canadian dollars...
...honeymoon expenses if & when Pettit gets married), Producer Stephani got exclusive rights to his acting and athletic talents. Then Stephani, who knew how glad some big-league clubs would be to take over the baseball end of his contract, put Pettit on the block to the highest bidder...
...bidder for self-improvement this year is Finland. Long worried about their manners, particularly the knife-brandishing belligerence of Finnish drunks, the Finns last month stepped up their courtesy campaign. Run by the serious "Citizens' Good Behavior Organization," the drive is aimed at making "the common Finn a gentleman" in time for the Olympic Games in 1952. In addition, Finland has decided on an anti-gluttony campaign. Insurance company surveys show that during the food-short war years, the people were healthier than before. But Finns have not taken the hint. Said Tailor Eirik Dronstedt, who has been busy...
...completed work will be shown-in London for a fortnight and then shipped to, the U.S. for further exhibition and sale to the highest bidder. The proceeds will be donated to the British treasury. "It is the duty of every individual," the 82-year-old Queen Mother explained, "to contribute something directly to help the country in its need for dollars." Her patriotic duty done, Queen Mary added one proviso in the interests of posterity: whoever bought her carpet would have to agree to turn it over "eventually" to a public institution...