ALLAN PRICE KIRBY
ONE of the 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...