Word: juggler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long and complicated race for control of the bankrupt Missouri Pacific, Railroad Juggler Robert R. Young has had the throttle wide open, but so far has gotten nowhere. Young has been battling an ICC plan which would turn over the now profitable road to the bondholders and wipe out MoPac's 828,395 shares of common stock, more than half of which are owned by Young's Alleghany Corp. (TIME, Dec. 10). Last week Young lost his fourth attempt to block the ICC plan, when the U.S. Supreme Court turned down requests by him and four others...
...last year's most popular stars will also appear. Sophomore Jerry Alch will be the M.C. again, while juggler Hugh Shepley will perform for his fourth consecutive year...
...fought harder to grasp this prize than Railroad Juggler Robert R. Young, who owns 51% of MoPac's outstanding common stock. For two years he has opposed a plan, tentatively approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission, which would wipe out the common-stock interests, give control of the reorganized road to the bondholders. Last week the fight erupted in a rash of full-page ads across the nation and a flurry of charges and countercharges at an ICC hearing...
...selling Britain's top stars (Noel Coward, Beatrice Lillie, Gertrude Lawrence) to transatlantic theatergoers. Specializing in both beauty ("Mr. Cochran's Young Ladies") and beasts (he introduced rodeo to a somewhat startled England), he promoted anything he considered a good show ("I would rather see a good juggler than a bad Hamlet...
...Dedicating the group "very humbly" to the Margrave of Brandenburg, in three of these Bach brought to perfection the concerto grosso form (in which a group of instruments instead of an individual soloist is pitted against an accompanying orchestra). Conductor Reiner balances his various instrumental voices like a master juggler, and gives the whole spacious warmth as well. Recording: good...