Word: richardson
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...mysteries surrounding the fight for the New York Central Railroad is: Who owns the 800,000 shares of Central stock supposedly sold by the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad to Robert R. Young's Texas friends, Clint Murchison and Sid Richardson? The Texans say that they bought the stock for $20 million, but New York Central President William White charges that they are not the real owners, says they put up no money of their own. As a result, the Central this week refused to transfer the stock until it got the "proper papers...
Burrell, a native Englishman, is known primarily for his work during the war, when he was one of the three co-directors of the Old Vic. His associates as leaders of the Vic, which is the equivalent of a British national theater, were Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier...
Burrell has directed Richardson and Olivier in such plays as "Arms and the Man," and during his career has produced or directed practically every classical drama in English literature. In addition he has written introductions for several books on the theater...
Bazy also tried another tack. She called a long list of potential backers, including such conservative millionaires as Sears, Roebuck's Chairman General Robert Wood, ex-Ambassador to England Joseph Kennedy, and Texas Oilmen H. L. Hunt, Sid Richardson, Hugh Roy Cullen and Clint Murchison. Before her 45 hours were up, she had pledges for about $4,000,000, but when she asked the colonel for time to raise more, he said "No, no, no." The colonel was determined to sell to Meyer because he respected him as a professional newspaperman. The colonel did not want to sell...
Then Murchison cleared up another question that had been hanging fire for weeks. Did he and Sid Richardson actually own the 800,000 shares of New York Central stock they were supposed to have bought from the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad? Central President William White flatly announced that they did not. Said Murchison: He and Richardson came into actual possession of the stock this week, and "we're going to vote it for Young...