Takeovers: The Prince, the General And the Greyhound

Once upon a time, there was a boy named Billy Wood. His family, which lived in Tuxedo Park, N.Y., was well off but not royally so. His cousin, though, was a real prince — Frederick Henry Prince. He reigned over a mighty empire called Armour, which had grown rich from slaughtering and selling fattened beasts.

It happened that Frederick thought highly of Billy. He took him under his shield in far-away Chicago and taught him everything a princeling should know — which was a great deal — about running Armour. He saw to it that Billy, who was handsome...

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