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...Murchison boys on the cover this week join a small and unique society of cover subjects whose parents were on TIME'S cover before them. Texas Millionaire Clint Murchison appeared...
...them would survive the trip-were bound on a different mission. John Dabney Murchison, 39, and his brother Clinton Williams Murchison Jr., 37, flew to Manhattan not as suppliants but as conquerors. In a coup that outdealt even the feats of their wheeler-dealer father, oil-rich Clint Murchison Sr. (TIME cover, May 24, 1954), the Murchison brothers of Texas had won, almost in spite of themselves, a commanding position in the very citadel of U.S. finance...
...heir of one of the founders of the F. W. Woolworth Co. Last year Kirby maneuvered the Murchison brothers out of control of Investors Diversified Services, the nation's largest (assets: $3 billion) complex of mutual funds, and returned control to Alleghany. Encouraged by their wily father, Oilman Clint Murchison Sr., 66, the young Murchisons replied by opening a fight for mastery of Kirby's Alleghany itself...
...Henry Ford, with his hatred of "the Eastern bankers," would have been delighted. Flushed with consciousness of its mounting financial power, Texas had challenged a Wall Street titan to the biggest proxy fight in U.S. history. Last week Texas-in the persons of John Murchison, 39, and his brother Clint Jr., 37-won the day, snatched control of Manhattan's giant Alleghany Corp. away from Multimillionaire Allan P. Kirby...
...entries in five days. Radio Nord's charge for a primetime, 60-second spot: $40. The Bonjour is owned by a wheeler-dealer Texan, Dallas Tycoon Robert F. Thompson, whose other interests include seven U.S. radio stations, five U.S. TV stations, and a sometime partnership with Millionaire Clint Murchison Jr. Radio Nord's programs are taped in downtown Stockholm and delivered regularly to the Bonjour by motor launch, along with the plugs from eager sponsors. The whole deal has proved so successful that Thompson is already considering putting pirate ships off Goteborg and in the Mediterranean, off France...