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...wife and an illegitimate son, who piously reported the poignant fact that in the 40 years before his death in 1806, at the age of 79, George Stubbs never had a drink of anything but water. Aside from that, little is known about him-except that at his peak he could command a higher price for the portrait of a horse than Sir Joshua Reynolds charged for an earl. There was good reason for his success: his landscapes could be as elegantly dead as any man's, but when he painted animals, every muscle flared with life, and every...
...whose wife is Althea O'Hanlon, assistant vice president of Capital and a close friend of Murchison's, charged that Murchison (no kin to the wealthy Texas Murchisons), armed with inside information, sold two-thirds of his shareholdings around the time when Capital stock was at a peak ($41.50) four years ago, later bought back his stock at substantially lower prices, quadrupling his former shareholdings. His law firm has been paid $588,500 in legal fees by Capital in the past six years...
Finger on the Problem. Raytheon's stock, which had reached a peak of 73⅞ the month Geneen quit, last week was down to 43⅛. Raytheon's 1959 earnings did not keep pace with the company's gains in 1957 and 1958, and its first-quarter 1960 earnings, announced last week as 56? a share, were also below forecasts. Despite a Government-guaranteed loan of $75 million, Raytheon has needed more and more money. Last week the company announced a $100 million bank-financed loan with which it hopes to retire its $75 million loan...
...peak of his incredible career in the 19205, Brinkley owned three yachts (one of which was 150 feet long and shipped a pipe organ), the most powerful radio station on earth, quantities of snazzy real estate, diamonds large enough to be used for fish-line sinkers, and any number of imaginatively colored limousines. In 1930 he decided, a couple of months before Election Day, to run for the governorship of Kansas (he promised a lake in each county), and his write-in campaign might well have succeeded had not the Republican and Democratic ballot counters joined hands against...
Though there are firm orders (twelve units) for the Thor Delta, the production peak has been passed. The last Thor was delivered last month. ¶ The Air Force's Skybolt, an air-launched ballistic missile, may eventually be a big program (some estimates put it well over $500 million), but it is still in the early development stages and is by no means large enough to fill the hole left by Thor...