Word: richardson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Newport, R.I., Intercollegiate Tennis Champion Hamilton Richardson, 20, sixth ranking player in the U.S., fought through a four-hour final, longest of the grass-court season, outlasted Pasadena's Straight Clark, 29, for the Newport invitation title, 6-3, 9-7, 12-14, 6-8, 10-8. Shot through with upsets, the tournament saw such top-seeded players as the U.S.'s Vic Seixas, Australia's Wimbledon Finalist Kenneth Rosewall and his Davis Cup teammate, Lewis Hoad, all beaten badly in early rounds...
...short stories are fashioned more of nerves than sinew. In Back to the Sea, Alberto Moravia offers one of his sensually melancholy battles of the sexes, so arrestingly Moravian that it scarcely need have been signed. Maurice Richardson begins Way Out in the Continuum, a chillingly funny satire of the post-atomic-war age, with the sentence: "This is decapitated head No. 63, Universal Institute of Cerebral Physiology, electrotelepathecast ing in all directions in space-time." Typical of Horizon's gnawing sense that the times are out of joint is Paul Goodman's Iddings Clark, a surrealistic tale...
When Texans Clint Murchison and Sid Richardson bought 800,000 shares of New York Central Railroad stock last March, it did not look as if they would hang on to it very long. The deal gave them the right to sell half of it back to Robert R. Young's Alleghany Corp. and to Young's crony and financial angel, Allan Kirby, at the same price they had paid: $25 a share. Last week they did sell a big chunk of the stock. Richardson sold 200,000 shares to Kirby, thus repaying the $5,000,000 that Kirby...
Then Alleghany turned around and made a new deal with the Texans to put its stock under joint ownership, along with their remaining 300,000 shares (for which Alleghany had lent them the money). Under the contract, Murchison and Richardson will get dividends and the profits from any sale of their 300,000 shares, though the voting rights will be exercised by Alleghany Corp. And the Texans will stand any losses on both their holdings and Alleghany's if they are sold at a loss...
Texas Millionaires Clint Murchison and Sid Richardson, who parlayed their way from the oil business into the New York Central (see above), last week placed a bet at a different window. For some $1,200,000 they bought a 40% interest in California's Del Mar Race Track, and, said they, had "control." This time their goal was not profit, but charity...