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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, February 19, 1959

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   Pacific Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1959, Tokyo, Japan                                Page 18 the stars and stripes thursday february 19, 1959 Veeck Syndicate agrees to Purchase control of Chison Chicago a the dynasty of n three Genera icon baseball family started Crum bling tuesday when an eight member Syndicate headed by irrepressible Bill Veeck agreed to buy controlling Stock in the Chicago White sox. Cveck picked up an option to buy majority holdings within 45 Days. Then.1 is a lot. Of Legal red tape i " but by Marchi. Vucek and his associates Hope to have completed Purchase for $2.7 million of Dorothy Comisky kidney s 54 per cent interest in the while sox. If and when the Deal is consummated Dorothy s brother Chuck will be the last of the comisk cys in baseball marking the first time in the club s 59-year history that it was not wholly family controlled. Veeck said he hoped to work out an amicable solution in respect to 33-year-old Comiskey who controls 46 per cent of the Slock. He failed in a recent attempt to buy some or All of Chuck s Stock. Veeck s Syndicate he disclosed at a news conference included former colleagues in his operation of the St. Louis Browns and the Cleveland indians. They Are Hank Greunberg Cleveland former maj or league Star and Hall of Fame member and sex general manager and a major Stock Holder in the indians Arthur  Allyn Chicago investment brokerage House owner and former partner of Veeck s in ownership of the indians and Browns Allyn s son Arthur c., or. Andrews Baxter Cleve land owner of a Cleveland investment firm and former major stockholder in the indians j. Douglas Casey Chicago a partner in the Allyn company and John Hilson partner in a new York investment firm and a former major stockholder in the Browns. Veeck said his group would iry to com plete the Purchase of mrs. Rigney s Stock White sox gain flamboyant Boss Chicago  
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