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Tycoon Kirby keeps a close watch on Alleghany's nickels and dimes. He often hefts the mail sent by subordinates to see if they have used unnecessary postage, shoots thema stiff A.P.K. reprimand if they have. As a hobby he collects, appropriately enough dime novels, e.g., the Liberty Boys, the Nick Carter series. But when it comes to houses, Kirby acts the tycoon. For fishing he keeps the Gaspé camp; for winter quail hunting he has a ten-room Civil War Plantation house on a lake in South Carolina; for football weekends he bought Chateau Chavaniac, a replica...
...road across northern Ohio east of buffalo, and west to Chicago and St. Louis, he wants to merge with the New York, Chicago & St. Louis (Nickel Plate) Railroad through an exhange of .45 of a share of N. & W. stock for one of Nickel Plate's. To close the 111-mile gap between the end of his tracks at Columbus and the Nickel Plate's at Sandusky, he wants to buy the Sandusky Line from the Pennsylvania Railroad for $27 million. Finally, to push his network into Michigan and west to Omaga, he plans to lease the Wabash...
...Close-Up (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). John Daly, in one of his final appearances on ABC, grills labor and management on Featherbedding...
...Close-Up (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Yanki, No! focuses on Latin America's struggle with Communism, as seen by Robert Drew's candid-camera technique...
Died. Dirk Jan de Geer, 89, Netherlands ex-Premier, who after the German invasion of his country in 1940 briefly headed a London government-in-exile, later returned to The Netherlands, where he spent the rest of the war, came close enough to collaborating with the Nazis to draw a one-year suspended prison sentence for high treason in 1947; in Soest...