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...ALLAN PRICE KIRBY...
...richest men the in the U.S. is Allan Price Kirby, 68, whose personal fortune is estimated at nearly $300 million. He is chairman, president and controlling stockholder of Alleghany Corp., the vast holding company whose assets include control of the New York Central and the $3 billion Investors Diversified Services, the biggest U.S. mutual fund group. Despite this considerable power, quiet courtly Allan Kirby habitually wears the look of a doleful Alfred Hitchcock-and last week he had his reasons. Texas Millionaire Clint Murchison and his two sons, once Kirby's partners in Alleghany (TIME, Sept. 19), are trying...
...Allan Kirby is an old proxy fighter himself, but in the past he was able to do his battling by proxy: he supplied the capital while the fighting was done by his more flamboyant partner, Financier Robert Young. While Young killed himself two years ago, Kirby had no choice but to take over the management of Alleghany, soon showed that the days of Young's financial derring-do were out. Explains Kirby: "Young had such a restless disposition that he could such not a resist the fatal mistake of jumping in and out of good investments before they even...
Kirby's father made his money in nickels and dimes, starting as a bookkeeper in the Watertown, N.Y. country store that launched the Woolworth chain. His father soon took the Woolworth gospel to Wilkes Barre, Pa., opened his worth own store there. Young Allan went to Lawrenceville preparatory school and La fayette College, learned to value nickels by working in the store on holidays for 5? an hour. After a World War I stint in the Navy, he returned to build up a thriving Chrysler auto dealership. The turning point in his career came in 1935, when his father...
...Allan Engleberg splashed to a fair 2:17.3 in the 200 individual medley, while Bruce Hunter took the 220 free...