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Last week Young tried a new maneuver: he announced that he had sold all the C. & O. stock held by his Alleghany Corp. to Old Friend Cyrus S. Eaton, Cleveland industrialist and a longtime fellow castigator of New York banking interests. Young also sold his own C. & O. holdings, as did a small group of men around Young, including wealthy. Dime Store Heir Allan P. Kirby. Young also turned over his job as chairman of the C. & O. board to Eaton whose C. & O. holdings, with the 104,854 shares bought from Alleghany, swelled to 205,854 shares. Young, Kirby...
...then John's irate daddy, 76-year-old Industrialist John R. Winter, fired the persuasive Brazilian. According to John, Sabino forthwith threatened to "pump me full of hot lead," and made John write off all debts on the clothes, TV set and car, and on top of that had the gall to demand a $100-a-week salary for life...
...Knoedler's, a show called "A Collector's Taste" displayed 24 of the best paintings owned by Manhattan Industrialist Stephen Carlton Clark (Singer sewing machines), longtime trustee of the Metropolitan Museum. Unlike many private collections, which tend to second-rate paintings by first-rate artists, the Clark show contained only jewels. Among the most brilliant: Vincent Van Gogh's great, glowing Le Cafe de Nuit, done in heavy, vibrant greens, yellows and reds; Rembrandt's beatific St. James, in which the praying saint appears surrounded by a holy presence; El Greco's bearded, cross-bearing...
Married. Hedy Lamarr, 39, Vienna-born cinemactress (Ecstasy); and millionaire Texas Oilman W. Howard Lee, 45; she for the fifth time (her previous marriages: to Austrian Industrialist Fritz Mandl, Hollywood Writer-Producer Gene Markey, Cinemactor John Loder, Nightclub Owner Ernest Stauffer), he for the second; in New York City...
...universities that has no government subsidy, Pro Deo is still able to afford such lecturers as Roberto Rossellini and U.S. Economist Peter Drucker. Students from 26 different countries have studied there, and gifts have come in from such far-flung sources as the family of the late Czech industrialist Thomas Bata and U.S. Cardinals Spellman and Stritch. Last week Father Morlion was making plans for a new institute of European studies. The man slated to take charge of it (on a part-time basis): Alcide de Gasped...