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...last week, after a few rounds of cool Budweiser, some 35 financial newshawks sat down at a long table as the guests of Robert Ralph Young, amiable spokesman-member of the trio which bought control of the Van Sweringen railroad empire from George A. Ball, the Muncie, Ind. fruit-jar tycoon (TIME, May 3). It was quiet Mr. Young who described himself and his two partners-Allan P. Kirby and Frank F. Kolbe-as "just babes in the woods." Last week the "Babes" started out of the woods. Before the luncheon in Rockefeller Center the directors of Alleghany Corp...
...Proxies prosaically were cast to elect as directors the new controlling interests in Alleghany Corp. At the same time in Manhattan, Stockbrokers Robert Ralph Young and Frank Frederick Kolbe were sitting down with George A. Ball to complete the transaction by which the 74-year-old Muncie, Ind. fruit-jar manufacturer stepped down as the dominant figure in the Van Sweringen picture (TIME...
Every alert newshawk knew that George Alexander Ball, the 74-year-old Muncie, Ind. fruit-jar maker, had been listening attentively to offers for the stocks by which he controlled the $3,000,000,000 Van Sweringen rail and real-estate empire (TIME, April 19). They knew, too, how for a mere $3,121,000 old Mr. Ball and his friend George A. Tomlinson, the Great Lakes ship operator, had bought that control from a Morgan banking group at the most spectacular auction in Wall Street history; how Mr. Ball had expected the Vans to make a comeback...
...physics. Last week's batch was particularly exasperating. Some of the papers reminded him of dead fish and rotten eggs. When he handed the papers back to their authors, he did so in a new way. None of the papers was marked, but flunkers found theirs in a jar from which came the rotten-egg stench of hydrogen sulphide. The papers of even more hopeless dummies Professor Madigan had permeated with butyric acid, for a smell worse than Limburger cheese. Able students were odoriferously rewarded. The jar from which they drew their papers had been fragrantly scented with attar...
...past fortnight. It was not the first Muncie assignment for Newshawk Hadley. After Muncie's George Alexander Ball was unexpectedly boosted into the driver's seat of Midamerica Corp. last November following the death of Oris Paxton Van Sweringen (TIME, Nov. 30), he interviewed the aging fruit-jar maker about his plans for that corporate key to the $3,000,000,000 rail and real-estate empire. And 28-year-old Newshawk Hadley left with an invitation from 74-year-old Mr. Ball to return any time he needed assistance on a story...