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Under a bold-faced ad heading, ANTITRUST, Manhattan's Barclay hotel last February genially invited the nation's corporations to take advantage of its executive suites ($7,500 a year and up). Said the Barclay in its ad in the New York Times: "Corporation secrets are best discussed in the privacy of an Executive Suite at the Barclay." Last week the statement was open to doubt. In Philadelphia a Federal Grand Jury returned a second set of indictments against eight electrical-equipment makers, charging antitrust violations involving criminal conspiracy to fix prices, divide markets and rig bids (TIME...
...Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake and the Frenchman Jean Nicot (after whom nicotine is named) all helped to popularize smoking, considered it good for the health. In 1614 a Scottish doctor named William Barclay wrote that tobacco "prepares the stomach for the acceptance of meat, makes the voice clear and the breath sweet," pushed it as an antidote for "hypochondric melancholy" and such diseases as arthritis and epilepsy...
...that. Through its stock holdings, Alleghany has 17% working control of the New York Central Railroad, plus 50% ownership of the Missouri Pacific Railroad. The Central also owns more than $500 million in Manhattan real estate, including the Park Lane, Commodore, Biltmore and Barclay hotels, plus several blocks of Park Avenue land. Biggest plum of all: Alleghany's 47.8% control of Investors Diversified Services, which manages five mutual funds whose combined assets total about $3 billion. This great Alleghany complex, says Sonnabend, "has been static since Robert Young died. It needs new vitality and dynamism...
Died. Russell Barclay Kingman, 74, onetime (1951-52) president of the United States Lawn Tennis Association (he cracked down on creeping lace pantyism among female contenders), only American president (1949 and 1954) of the International Lawn Tennis Federation; of a heart ailment; in Orange...
...BARCLAY...