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- 1 2 3 New York Times: "Herbert Allen Sr., 88, an Early Specialist in Corporate Takeovers" By LESLIE EATON January 23, 1997
- 1 2 Forbes: "The World's Billionaires - #605 Herbert Allen Jr & family March 5, 2008
- ↑ New York Times: "Charles Allen Jr., 91, Founder Of Investment Company, Is Dead" By RICHARD D. LYONS July 17, 1994
- ↑ New York Times: "Paid Notice: Deaths ALLEN, HAROLD" August 28, 2002
- 1 2 New Yorker Magazine: "THE CONSIGLIERE - There are big decisions yet to be made in the MCA-Seagram deal, and they may all involve Herbert Allen" BY KEN AULETTA MAY 22, 1995 |"Herbert spent a good part of his childhood in the leafy Westchester suburb of Irvington. His father's mother "was Jewish--we think," Allen says. His father became a nonpracticing Unitarian--an agnostic, that is. Herbert's mother was an Irish Catholic, and she had her daughter and her son baptized in the church, but, like his father, Herbert abhorred the structure and the discipline of formal religion. "It's like digging potatoes," he says. "You can do it one day and then you get the idea."
- ↑ New York Times: "27-Year-Old President Elected by Allen & Co." August 8, 1966
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Fortune: "Inside the Private World of Allen & Co. Putting a premium on personal ties, this family firm thrives in the land of the giants" By Carol J. Loomis June 28, 2004
- ↑ The Berkshire Eagle, June 15, 2007
- ↑ New York Times: "Kristin Fisher and Charles Allen" May 15, 2005
- ↑ "Inside the Private World of Allen & Co. Putting a premium on personal ties, this family firm thrives in the land of the giants. - June 28, 2004".