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...host of hands, the Gazette continued to thrive. In 1821 its name was changed to the Saturday Evening Post-a misnomer then as now, since the magazine never has appeared on Saturday (it now comes out Tuesdays). As publisher of some of the best 19th century fiction, from Edgar Allan Poe to James Fenimore Cooper, it enjoyed a nationwide vogue. But reading tastes change, and by 1897 Post circulation had wasted to 2,000 from a peak of 90,000; the magazine was sold to Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, a former Maine dry goods clerk who had demonstrated an early...
...Allan said that the committee was unaware that Bethell was not registered at Harvard when it made its decision. He maintained, however, that Bethell is not disqualified because he was a student when the piece was written, and he has not yet graduated...
...must assume that he will return to Harvard," Allan added. Bethel, who is managing editor this year of Cambridge 38, which is published by the Yearbook, is ill with pneumonia and unavailable for comment...
ALLEGHANY BOUT goes into the final round with the count about 3,300,000 common shares held by Chairman Allan P. Kirby and 2,600,000 by the Murchison Brothers. Decision on who will control the giant holding company that controls the New York Central and $3 billion in investment funds will go to side that can muster most proxies, at the May 1 annual meeting, from the remaining shares held by other stockholders...
...stockholders of Alleghany Corp., which controls both the New York Central Railroad and Investors Diversified Services (the biggest U.S. mutual fund group), went 17-page proxy solicitations from Clint Murchison Jr. and his brother John, in an open bid for control of Alleghany. The Murchisons charged that Alleghany Chairman Allan P. Kirby has let Alleghany's investment policy stagnate (except for an unsuccessful stock-buying race with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway to gain control of the Baltimore & Ohio). They alleged further that Kirby has shown no leadership, and surrounded himself with men inexperienced in everything but saying...