Word: murchison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inconclusive talks with the Boston textbook house, Allyn and Bacon. With Holt, the indirect approach proved more successful. Holt President Alfred C. Edwards was caught by surprise last September when CBS paid some $19 million for the stock held by his biggest (10.8%) shareholders, Texas Entrepreneurs Clint and John Murchison. Upset at the time, Edwards since has warmed to the idea of CBS's rich (1966 sales: $815 million) corporate shelter...
...After seeing your picture of Mrs. John Murchison preparing bouillabaisse sans an apron, I nominate her for Woman of the Year...
...enforcement of poaching laws and strict limits on trophy hunters, the population of big game has exploded beyond all bounds. There are now 20,000 elephants in Tsavo alone, and another 20,000 have been counted in the Zambezi River Valley between Zambia and Rhodesia. In Uganda's Murchison Falls National Park, the pachyderms are packed in at a density of between five and 40 elephants per square mile...
...Alleghany's progenitors, the late Robert Young and aging Woolworth Heir Allan P. Kirby, now 73, took control of the New York Central Railroad was big and bitter. Next, in one of Wall Street's most famous proxy battles, Kirby lost Alleghany to Texans Clint and John Murchison (TIME cover, June 16, 1961), later won it back again by stubbornly outsitting and outbuying them...
Married. Lord Rothermere, 67, British press lord presiding over an $84 million publishing empire (London Daily Mail, Evening News, Daily Sketch); and Mary Murchison Ohrstrom, 35, Texas heiress and niece of Clint Murchison; he for the third time (his second wife later married author Ian Fleming, who had been named corespondent in Rothermere's divorce suit), she for the second; in London...