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...widow of battling Railroadman Robert Young resigned in a huff from the board of the multimillion-dollar Alleghany Corp. last week-and thus set the stage for what promises to be 1960's liveliest proxy scrap. Anita O'Keeffe Young,* still ambitious and aggressive at 60-plus, quit to express her opposition to cold, stolid Chairman Allan P. Kirby, 67. It was a bitter end to a 25-year association. Kirby's inherited Woolworth millions had bankrolled Bob Young from the 19305 onward, had put him in command of Alleghany, which controls the New York Central Railroad...
...wonderful article on pro football and the New York Giants' Sam Huff...
...field, Sam Huff is an unassuming extravert with a reputation as a waitress kidder, a dislike for liquor (two beers make him woozy), and a quiet determination to get to bed around 10 every night. But the game has left more of a mark on him than the slightly twisted nose in his handsome, square-jawed face. Sometimes he worries that the mean streak he works up for his profession of violence will affect him permanently. "You've got to watch that you don't take it off the field with you," says Sam. "You get guys...
...game has also left Huff with strong pride in his playing reputation and a fierce desire to become one of the great defensive players in the history of the game. "There's no telling how good Huff can become," says one Giant official. "He's still far from his potential...
What the new league needs far more than big talk is big players like Linebacker Sam Huff. Down in Consol No. 9, back in Farmington, W. Va., a monster engine pulls loads of coal out of the mine, and still has enough power left over to do half a dozen other jobs. Nickname of the engine: the Sam Huff Special. "By jingo," says the proud father of the finest linebacker in the world, "it pulls an awful load...