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Whitney, who had just divorced Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney. The Harrimans observed their 25th wedding anniversary last February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Ave & the Magic Mountain | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

Artist-Poetess-Actress Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowska, 31, was signed up by a sometime escort, Crooner-Cinemactor Frank (The Tender Trap) Sinatra, to make her movie debut as leading lady in Star-Producer Sinatra's first Western, Johnny Concho. In the script, Gloria will snap at Frankie: "I'll marry you only when you grow up!" At week's end, Gloria, who married long-maned Maestro Leopold Stokowski in 1945 when he was 63 and bore him two sons, flew to Juarez and signed off as his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 7, 1955 | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

...first time how he had happened to buy the Central stock. It was, he insisted, a strictly run-of-the-mill investment, and not a slick maneuver to help Young win the Central. In fact, said Murchison, he had even done his best to see if Harold S. Vanderbilt, then a Central director bitterly opposed to Young, had first wanted to buy the 800,000 shares owned by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. Drawled

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTMENT: A Lot of Fertilizer | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

Murchison: "There was a rumor in Texas Vanderbilt wanted to buy these shares. I got [my lawyer] to go to Vanderbilt. He said the rumor was fiction." With that, Murchison went ahead with the deal. He asked Partner Sid Richardson, one of the world's richest oilmen, to come in with him because $20 million "occurred to me as a pretty big bite to take alone." Well, how much was Mr. Murchison worth? asked court-appointed Referee Robert J. Fitzsimmons. Answered Murchison : "About five, six or seven million." As it turned out, though, he did not need any money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTMENT: A Lot of Fertilizer | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

When he heard of Murchison's testimony, ex-Central Director Vanderbilt told a diametrically opposite story. He admitted that he had indeed seen Murchison's lawyer, but flatly denied that he had said he had no interest in buying the Central stock. Snapped Vanderbilt: "I not only never made any such statement, but I was interested in buying said shares when I saw him. I shortly afterwards made an offer to purchase all of said stock for $20 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTMENT: A Lot of Fertilizer | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

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