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Like other Sinclair novels, Theirs Be the Guilt has its Lanny Budd, i.e., a character who, when history's big scenes are played, is to be found stage center, or at least behind the arras with tape recorder. Here, this character is Allan Montague, a boy growing up on a slightly mythical Southern plantation, with a swarm of smiling Negroes in the great house-and another swarm of Negroes out in the cotton fields, where it is hard to see if they are smiling or not. Probably not. But for Allan and his dashing cousins, 'Dolph and Ralph...
ALLEGHANY FIGHT is heading for showdown after compromise attempts failed. Chairman Allan P. Kirby has withdrawn offer to give Boston Financier Abraham Sonnabend a seat on Allegheny's board, will not extend a second otter to buy 200,000 shares of stock claimed by Sonnabend, and challenges him to a proxy fight. Sonnabend is mum on plans, has not yet filed statement of proxy intentions with...
...meet these powers, Marion will use a team which is notably strong in the foil division, but undermanned in the epee class. His personnel problems have even forced him to switch Allan Gardner, basically a foil man, to epee competition in order to help the team's only regular epee combatant, Jim Roberts...
Financier Allan P. Kirby, boss of Alleghany Corp. since the death of Robert R. Young almost two years ago, got a telephone call last week from another big moneyman. The caller: Boston's Abraham M. Sonnabend, the real estate wheeler-dealer who heads Hotel Corp. of America, Botany Industries, and a fistful of other companies. Could they set up a meeting some time later in the week? Kirby knew why. For months, Sonnabend and a group of associates had been quietly buying Alleghany stock, and they owned some 700,000 shares, or about 14% of the common stock outstanding...
...Allan R. Robinson '54, who will be made an assistant professor when he returns from England next fall, will help Goody in the administration of the fellowships. Most of the New York grant will be used for Robinson's salary...