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Thus, routinely, news of the mass vaccination trials to prove the value of Dr. Jonas E. Salk's polio vaccine (TIME, Mar. 29) seeped down to the grass roots. Said the school's principal, Sid Clark: "The children understand that something pretty important is being done. They understand that vaccination is a doctor with a needle, and that their parents are going to say yes or no." Clark was more worried about the parents' reactions than the children's. "There are so many rumors flying around, started by headline hunters...
...Vanderbilt has increased his holdings from 10,000 shares to 60,000. The Young slate claimed ownership of 1,089,880 shares, or about 17%. But the big end of the Young group's holdings is the 800,000 shares listed for Texas Oilmen Clint W. Murchison and Sid W. Richardson, which the Central still refuses to transfer to the Texans in its record books (TIME, April...
...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...
...Manhattan, a lawyer for Murchison corrected this story in a few details. He said that $7,500,000 came from a group of Ohio banks, headed by the Central National of Cleveland, $7,500,000 from the Alleghany Corp. and $5,000,000 as a personal loan to Sid Richardson from Young's good friend and business associate, Allan Kirby. Bob Young agreed with most of these details and added that Alleghany's loans to Murchison and Richardson were secured only by the oilmen's signatures. Said he: "Our relations with Mr. Murchison have existed for years...
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...