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Ordinarily, the Grand National is the No. i magnet of the year for U. S. Anglophiles. This year, because the Coronation outranks it as an attraction, there were fewer Americans than usual in the crowd of 500,000. In the Earl of Derby's box sat King George and Queen Elizabeth, who had the good fortune to bet a pound note on the winner. Feature of the race, which only seven of the 33 starters contrived to finish, was the outrageous behavior of a horse named Drim. Drim unseated his rider, ran on without him, caught up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grand National, Mar. 29, 1937 | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...National Biscuit Co., with its innumerable packaged, trademarked lines, outmoded the old-fashioned cracker barrel, then American Sugar Refining Co. must be credited with overturning the oldfashioned sugar barrel. In both these grocery store revolutions Earl D. Babst played a spotlight role. A lawyer-turned-merchandiser, Sugarman Babst learned about trademarking as National Biscuit's general counsel, a job which involved hundreds of infringement suits, and in his Manhattan office today he has two shelves of calf-bound law books recording his legal commercial victories. Later as a Biscuit vice president, he learned about packaging, advertising, national markets, consumer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Sweet Squawk | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

Left. By Huey Pierce Long, who died intestate; a net estate of $116,971, that could be found; in New Orleans, under an accounting filed by his brother, Louisiana's Lieutenant Governor Earl K. Long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 22, 1937 | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

Communism was once rife in the U. S., but not the sort preached by Earl Browder and William Zebulon Foster. A religious, not a political belief, communism was attempted in 62 U. S. communities during the 19th Century, from Massachusetts' Brook Farm to Indiana's New Harmony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stirpiculture | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

None of the books recently recovered is of particular value, according to Walter B. Briggs, Acting Librarian probably the most costly being a 1792 edition of Thomas Paine's "Letters to the Earl of Sherburne...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seven Volumes Stolen From Widener in 1931 Returned to College Library | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

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