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What will Perlman do with the Central? Disregarding for the moment Young's high-flown proposals, such as the lightweight Train X, roller bearings and refrigerated cars, he says he will first "spend six months getting acquainted Those present: Allan P. Kirby, Young's side, kick and president of Alleghany Corp.; Earl E. T. Smith, New York Stock Exchange member and former husband of a descendant of Cornelius Vanderbilt; Dr. R. Walter Graham, Baltimore physician; William Landers of Utica, retired Central engineer; D. E. Taylor, president of West India Fruit and Steamship Co. of Norfolk, Va.; Frederick Lewisohn...
Cried Texas Governor Allan Shivers last week: "This is one of the greatest invasions of states' rights the courts have ever announced." What had alarmed him, along with oilmen and officials of other big gas-producing states, was the new gas decision of the U.S. Supreme Court (TIME, June 14). The Federal Power Commission, said the court, has authority to regulate natural-gas rates charged by "independent producers," i.e., those who gather gas within a state and then sell it to interstate pipeline companies...
...curtain raiser was a frothy "sham in one act" called Malady of Love, with libretto by Film Writer Lewis Allan and music by Broadway Composer and Conductor Lehman Engel. The story: a determined young thing (Ruth Fleming) wins her psychiatrist by telling him her contrivedly erotic dreams. While she sings prettily of herself ("I've been kissed but not mated") a pair of dancers act out her words and the young doctor (sung by a fine baritone, Warren Galjour) loses all his Freudian detachment over what he sees. The 30-minute score is neatly professional...
...executive committee, began to nibble away at Colonel Behn's power. They thought that Behn was out of the country too much, and should not have gone into consumer goods in the first place. Chief power-nibblers among the old Ryan groups: Alleghany Corp. President Allan Kirby, financial partner of Robert R. Young (see above); New Mexico Publisher Robert McKinney, a cousin of Bob Young; ex-Governor Charles Edison of New Jersey; Chairman Arthur M. Hill of Greyhound Corp.'s executive committee; and Houston Oilman George Brown...
...Wrestler Hammonds, it turned out, paid John Van Cronkhite, Governor Allan Shivers' last campaign manager, $1,000 a month for advice on "public relations." Hammonds said he hired Van Cronkhite at the suggestion of Governor Shivers' executive assistant. Van Cronkhite was to "keep cordial relations with the State Insurance Commission," said Hammonds, and everything went along fine until Van Cronkhite wanted $2,000 a month. Denying that he had peddled influence, Van Cronkhite said: "I got sucked in ... As soon as I found out what the situation...