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...office. Bob Sproul is still going strong after 17, and it is not for lack of other offers ("They're getting to be a nuisance"). Sproul has declined the presidency of the Anglo California National Bank (at $50,000), the presidency of the Prune and Apricot Growers, the directorship of Selective Service, candidacy for the Republican nomination for senator and governor. His biggest temptation came last January...
...Perkins left St. Louis to take over the directorship of the Buffalo Zoo. There he found, an institution that was smelly, filthy and ratinfested. He cleaned it up. He doubled the animal population (a mere 400 specimens when he arrived). He designed and supervised the building of a new reptile house; its natural-habitat display cases, with fluorescent lighting, set a new standard for U.S. zoos. But he had difficulties; the Buffalo Zoo was mired in city politics. In 1944, he quit and went to Chicago...
...entire holdings of common stock, 27,306 shares, in Alleghany Corp., which controls his burgeoning railroad empire. But Bob Young said that the sale in no way affected control of Alleghany. The shares were transferred to his associate, Allan P. Kirby, so that Young would be eligible for the directorship representing preferred stock holdings. Added Young: "I probably will increase my holdings of preferred...
Thomas J. Wilson will assume directorship of the University Press beginning July 1, the University announced last night. He succeeds Roger Scaife '97, present director and chairman of the Press' Board of Syndics...
...mothers-in-law, none might be more difficult than the U.S.'s own Emilio Gabriel Collado. A Harvard Ph.D. with a bright record as a troubleshooting economist for the Treasury and State Departments, hefty little "Pete" Collado, 36, was generally regarded as a good choice for the directorship when he was appointed last spring...