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...Mena, Ark., while the Campa Bros, circus trumpeted through its one-night stand, nine-year-old Maria Campa, granddaughter of one of the circus owners, was clawed and chewed to death by a young lion considered so tame he was tied to a stake outside his cage. Next day, as the Campa circus trundled along the rain-slicked road toward Mount Ida, two trucks overturned. Nine beasts scampered into Ouachita National Forest. A pursuing posse brought down one of two escaped leopards and recaptured a tame black bear and a rhesus monkey. The other leopard prowled all night before being...
...Manhattan's best addresses has long been 720 Fifth Avenue. There, for 40 years, Duveen Bros., dealers in old masters, have peddled Rembrandts, Raphaels and Gainsboroughs to Mellons, Morgans and Rockefellers. Last week Duveen's had moved into new and smaller quarters on a residential side street. The reason: "The old location was getting a bit too commercial...
Last week, with cattle prices pushing their ceiling, the Scotsmen decided to get out at the top. The five directors and more than 90% of the owners of the company's 800,000 shares of stock agreed to sell to Lazard Bros. & Co., Ltd. (British associate of Wall Street's Lazard Freres & Co.) for $23.70 a share. By holding out ever since Lazard made its first offer last December, stockholders made a fat profit. During eight months of negotiations, the stock shot up in London and the U.S. from $7 a share to nearly $28. Lazard Bros, said...
...Humble Oil & Refining Co. has put down 14 dry wells on Matador land, hope stirred anew when the big oil strike was made in Scurry County (TIME, Dec. 5, 1949), only 90 miles from Matador. Dundee's thrifty owners drove such a Scottish bargain that they made Lazard Bros, agree that if oil or valuable minerals are subsequently found on Matador's ranges, the new owners will share their royalties 50-50 with the sellers...
...radio may account for the fact that RCA's brilliant record in research and financing has not been equaled by its sales record-until recently. The man who has done much to eliminate this weakness is Frank M. Folsom, onetime vice president of Chicago's Goldblatt Bros, and Montgomery Ward, and chief of the procurement branch of the Navy during World War II, who joined RCA Victor...