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When he was kicked out of Manhattan's Alleghany Corp. two years ago in the most celebrated proxy war in U.S. business, New Jersey Financier Allan P. Kirby, 70, vowed that he would return. Last week it was clear that Kirby was on his way to regaining control of Alleghany, a holding company that controls not only the giant New York Central but Minneapolis' Investors Diversified Services, the nation's largest mutual fund complex (assets: $4.1 billion). For John Murchison, 41, and his brother Clint Jr., 39, the Texas wheeler-dealers who unseated Kirby, Alleghany and Kirby...
...Murchisons bought swampy land cheaply, are draining it and selling it for fat profits; an acre in New Orleans East for which they paid $300 now goes for $21,600. The brothers have learned that it is easier to move earth and sea than it is to shove old Allan Kirby...
...citizen," former Democratic Governor and U.S. Senator Herbert H. Lehman. Recuperating from a broken hip, Lehman spent his 85th birthday in a wheelchair, still enjoyed a Hotel Plaza dinner-dance for some 300 friends, a ceremony at home, then Scribner's publication of a Lehman biography by Historian Allan Nevins...
...They seem as solid and substantial as Saturn itself. But astronomers know better: the great rings are really next to nothing at all. Stars shine right through them, and when they turn edge-on toward earth they vanish completely. This should not be surprising, say Drs. Allan Cook and Fred Franklin of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Cambridge, Mass. The beautiful rings, as the two astronomers see them, are less than 8 in. thick...
...Phillips Brooks House Association last night elected officers for the coming year. Chosen President was Jack Fitzgerald '64, of Leverett House and Vinton, Iowa; first vice-president, Betsy E. Schaefer '64, of 124 Walker Street and Winchester; and second vice-President, Allan J. Dyson '64, of Quincy House and Salem, New Hampshire...