Word: allan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Replied Lehman: "I am not looking for clever deals, Mr. Young." How, Lehman wanted to know, was the purchase financed? How much of their own money did they put up? The Texans borrowed the money, said Young. His Alleghany Corp. had lent $7,500,000; Alleghany's President Allan P. Kirby had anted up another $5,000,000, while a banking syndicate headed by Cleveland's Central National Bank had put up the rest. "Well," said Lehman, "as I understand it, Messrs. Richardson and Murchison did not actually put up any of their own cash...
...illustration. Eugène Delacroix, a Romantic from his flowing locks to his patent leather pumps, found a congenial subject in Hamlet. Honoré Daumier brought his genius for social satire to a masterpiece in the same genre: Don Quixote. And Edouard Manet made a lithograph after Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven that would have delighted would-be-Parisian Poe's anxious heart...
This death was a drama whose details are still being hotly debated. In its sordidness it recalled, among other sad and disorderly exits, the death of Edgar Allan Poe.* But it proves something about Dylan Thomas, and about the typical kibitzers of greatness who flocked to him. The hangers-on are still fighting, figuratively, over his body. Some stick to the story that Thomas died of a cerebral injury caused by a fall at a drinking party. Another group hints that Thomas was fatally dosed with morphine by a doctor whom a rival clique had summoned to treat the poet...
This incident took place in 1949 at rock-strewn Vicos Hacienda, 10,000 feet up in the Andes northeast of Lima. But since then Vicos has changed. Last week Dr. Allan Holmberg, the scientist who wanted to save the child's life, reported on the change in a lecture at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, in Stanford, Calif...
Although this represented Paul Butler's first sharp departure from the line of Former Chairman Mitchell, he was still out of tune with Allan Shivers. When Shivers was asked whether he could support Stevenson in 1956, the Texan showed that he was anything but penitent. Stevenson, he said, would have to make "considerable changes." What changes? "Oh," said Shivers, "he'd probably have to change his name...