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...Street bankers, the Interstate Commerce Commission and some of Alleghany's chief stockholders (Young became known as "the most litigious man in Wall Street"). Young bought heavily into Alleghany in 1937 with $1,000,000 of his own money and $3,000,000 put up by an associate, Allan Kirby. the 5-&-100 store heir. It took five more years of court fights before he was solidly in control. For his trouble, Bob Young got control of $2 billion worth of assets, including the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, the Nickel Plate, Pere Marquette and Missouri Pacific. But in the intense...
...painter (he rated the cry of "Bonnets off!" from Highland chiefs), was largely self-taught. His portrait of the two older Ferguson boys, The Archers, was painted when Raeburn was only 31, but in its bold composition device and dramatic lighting it ranks with the best of his work. Allan Ramsay was another Scottish painter, whose paintings managed to catch the character of his sitters so definitively that Philosopher David Hume commissioned him to paint the famed French writer-philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau, in his outlandish purple caftan and fur cap, while Rousseau was living in exile in London...
...Glee Club and Choral Society buttressed the performance with superior singing. Never becoming obtrusive, they supplied spirit and strength, in addition to some beautiful quiet passages. Their preparation by Allan Miller was entirely adequate for an unusually disciplined and musical performance...
...ALLAN H. DEAL BRUCE M. WARNER Berkeley, Calif...
...deceased. Brother Edward's two children, George Huntington Hartford II (the art and theater entrepreneur) and Mrs. Josephine Bryce, share 10% each of A. & P.'s stock, as do Mrs. Allan Mclntosh and Mrs. Charles Robertson, daughters of sister Marie Louise and Mrs. Rachel Carpenter, granddaughter of sister Marie Josephine whose five other grandchildren share the remaining...