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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...
¶ 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...
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...
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...
Alfons Landa, Washington attorney, who is a Fruehauf stockholder and director. So grateful was Landa to Beck for saving the firm and his investment that he volunteered to split his profits from a stock purchase made possible by Beck's $1,500,000 loan. Informed that Beck had refused...