Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this too too solid flesh would melt," he moans. Thus begins the strange version of Hamlet that Director Joseph Papp presented last week at his Public Theater in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. In his years as producer of New York's open-air Shakespeare summer festival in Central Park, Papp has proved his ability to do the Bard straight. This time he does Shakespeare free and fancy. To a background of mind-bending rock music, his characters speak of Denmark, although they are costumed to suggest a modern military camp. Yet it is abundantly clear that the time...
...mutual funds, real estate and other interests worth more than $7 billion, Ireland has been a top tactician, first for the late Robert Young, more recently for Financier Allan P. Kirby, in seemingly endless court squabbles with stockholders, in bitter battles for the control of railroads (the New York Central, the Missouri Pacific) and in savage proxy fights for Alleghany itself (with the Murchison brothers of Dallas...
...Marines, which he joined after finishing Bowdoin. At 30, he joined the mercurial Robert Young at Alleghany as its $7,500-a-year secretary and counsel. Within three years, as Young and Partner Kirby immersed themselves in the long proxy battle that won them control of the Central from the Vanderbilt family, Ireland was running the store singlehanded...
Sleazy Money. The Suffolk County water authority, Newsday reported, had prohibited industrial development of vacant land in central Islip for fear that waste products would pollute the water supply. But when Water Authority Member (and Islip Republican Party Leader) Edward McGowan's firm bought the land, the authority changed its mind and approved its rezoning for manufacturing. McGowan sold the tract for a $167,000 profit. The scandal reached even to Newsday's doorstep. Its Suffolk editor, Kirk Price, who died last March, made $33,000 by a sale of land that he had bought...
...Topeka, Kans., courtroom last week, the lights were flicked off and judge and jury sat enthralled as a deadly serious story began to unfold on TV screens in front of them. The central figure. Thomas Kidwell, 47, had already been convicted of the murder of his promiscuous wife-although he could not remember much about what had happened before he was found in his wrecked car with her nude body on the floor...