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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even wily Proxy Fighter Alfons Landa, executive committee chairman of Fairbanks Whitney Corp., who helped Evans gain his place on the Crane board, was taken aback by Evans' maneuvers, questioned whether he was housecleaning too fast and hard. But Evans, who built Pittsburgh's H. K. Porter Co...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Tough Boss | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Evans cast his collector's eye on Crane in the fall of 1957, when the company's sales were slipping from a record $394 million in 1956 to $378 million. He began buying up stock, asked to get on the Crane board, but was turned down. As Crane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Heirloom Collector | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

¶ Robert W. Kerr, 55, vice president of American Machine & Foundry, moved to Penn-Texas as vice president and boss of all its subsidiaries, including Fairbanks, Morse and Toolmaker Pratt & Whitney. Colorado-born Bob Kerr graduated from U.C.L.A. ('27), spent his early years as a reporter on the Los...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Mar. 9, 1959 | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

The current king of the proxy fighters is a tough-talking, dapper Washington lawyer named Alfons Landa, who admits that his role in more than half a dozen battles has made him "as popular as a skunk." Last week Landa, 60, won his biggest battle by unseating pudgy Leopold Silberstein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Proxy King | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

Since November, the executive committee has made the decisions that Silberstein once made. It can be overruled only by a three-quarters majority of the twelve-man board, where Silberstein controls five votes. The committee's members: Weisman, Jacoby, Silberstein and a newcomer, Alfons Landa, 60, leader of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Ouster of Silberstein | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

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