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Last week at a royal pitso in Maseru, capital of South Africa's craggy, mountainous Basutoland, Victoria's great-grandson George VI celebrated Moshoeshoe Day (Moshesh's anniversary) by pinning medals on the dazzling, crocodile-and-lion-adorned blankets of a host...
Help from Aunt Janes. Among the Central's widely held stock, Young's Alleghany block was bigger than anyone else's (even Central's Board Chairman Harold S. Vanderbilt, great-grandson of the Commodore, held only about 60,000 shares). And Bob Young was a specialist in rallying small stockholders behind him ("Aunt Janes," he calls them). To the Aunt Janes-and the Uncle Jims-tired of being bumped around in rattletrap coaches, Bob Young appeared to be a streamlined Galahad on wheels. To fellow railroad men, whom he has unceasingly denounced in magazine articles, full...
When Bob Young starts his improvement, probably by trying to get his men elected to Central's board of directors, he will run smack up against Board Chairman Harold S. Vanderbilt and Union Pacific, which owns 160,000 shares of Central. A great-grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, Central's founder, Chairman Vanderbilt holds only some 65,000 shares. Young will be in for a scrap. But he is no man to dodge one. Wall Streeters watched with smiles of anticipation. It looked as if Central would soon be in the hottest fight since railroaders Jim Fisk...
...Operating at the start only on suspicion, U.S. investigators got their first firm lead from Frederick Arthur Savory-a great-grandson of U.S.-born Nathaniel Savory who colonized the Bonins in 1830-when he returned from exile in Japan bearing gruesome reports of executions and cannibalism...
Dunbar says he resolved to lead a U.S. symphony orchestra when he was a boy in British Guiana, the great-grandson of a slave. Says he: "I knew I would. I believe I am psychic...