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...Lightning Bolts." The 23-year-old righthander has drawn raves all over the American League circuit. "He's the fastest thing I've seen since Bob Feller was at his best," said New York Yankee Manager Casey Stengel. "This fellow throws lightning bolts." Baltimore's Catcher Clint Courtney, gingerly waving a sore hand, says, "Turley's the fastest guy I ever caught...
...bought a ship line than he wants a railroad, no sooner a candy company than he gets a grocery. Murchison juggles multimillion-dollar deals with the unconcern of a racetrack teller counting $2 bills. In Texas, where such a man is admiringly known as a "wheeler-dealer," Clint Murchison is the biggest wheeler-dealer of them all. Says Sid Richardson: "Murchison is the kind of man that tells you, 'Here, hold this horse while I run and catch another one.' First thing you know, you've got your hands full of Murchison horses...
...most of the headlines, other spring proxy wars were
bubbling.
...because Director Harold S. Vanderbilt has increased his holdings from 10,000 shares to 60,000. The Young slate claimed ownership of 1,089,880 shares, or about 17%. But the big end of the Young group's holdings is the 800,000 shares listed for Texas Oilmen Clint W. Murchison and Sid W. Richardson, which the Central still refuses to transfer to the Texans in its record books (TIME, April...
...mysteries surrounding the fight for the New York Central Railroad is: Who owns the 800,000 shares of Central stock supposedly sold by the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad to Robert R. Young's Texas friends, Clint Murchison and Sid Richardson? The Texans say that they bought the stock for $20 million, but New York Central President William White charges that they are not the real owners, says they put up no money of their own. As a result, the Central this week refused to transfer the stock until it got the "proper papers...