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...Town" (West Colorado Springs) was founded in 1859 by brawling goldseekers. At the town's first church service the minister found only one worshiper because everyone else was out hanging a Mexican horse thief. Later, however, the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad decided to cash in on the area's magnificent scenery (Pike's Peak, Garden of the Gods, etc.) and climate (69° average in summer, 29° in winter), promoted a swank resort. So many young Englishmen came that Colorado Springs was called "Little Lunnon." Amidst the Rockies they played cricket and polo; one wrote...
First business was to elect Young their new chairman - at $1 a year. Next they named Alfred E. Perlman, 51, executive vice president of the Denver & Rio Grande Western, as the Central's new president (TIME, June 7) and chief executive officer.-Take a Chance. Young and Perlman had met for the first time only 20 days before. But Perlman had been carefully scouted much earlier by Thomas J. Deegan, vice president of Alleghany and, as Young's righthand man, director of the campaign for Central proxies. As second in command (under Judge Wilson McCarthy) of the middle...
...tallying dragged on into this week, Young appeared supremely confident, was already talking about his new president for the Central, hinted that it might be the man he had dinner with the night before the meeting: A. E. Perlman, executive vice president of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad...
...aside $14 million monthly to repay the loan, there will be even less left to spend for U.S. exports. While Souza Dantas journeyed on to Manhattan to discuss the same problem with U.S. bankers and exporters, U.S. Ambassador James Kemper telephoned Washington from his post in Rio. Asked whether he talked to President Eisenhower, he said: "No, but don't ask me the next question." Reporters guessed he had put in a word for the Brazilians with his good friend Secretary of the Treasury-George Humphrey, who was mainly responsible for fixing the terms for the 1953 bail...
Alex H. Haegler '55 of Kirkland House and Rio de Janeiro, was chosen to captain the 1955 varsity tennis team at elections held yesterday. Fourth singles man, Haegler teamed with this year's captain, John Rauh, at first doubles for most of the spring. The junior was captain of the 1955 freshman tennis team and has played soccer ever since he has been at the College...