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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION --------------------
WASHINGTON, DC 20549 S.E.C. USE ONLY
FORM 144 --------------------
NOTICE OF PROPOSED SALE OF SECURITIES Document Sequence No.
PURSUANT TO RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT OF 1933 ---------------------
CUSIP Number
ATTENTION: TRANSMIT FOR FILING THREE COPIES
OF THIS FORM CONCURRENTLY WITH ---------------------
EITHER PLACING AN ORDER WITH A BROKER TO Work Location
EXECUTE A SALE OR EXECUTING A SALE
DIRECTLY WITH A MARKET MAKER. ---------------------
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1(a) Name of Issuer (b) I.R.S. Ident. No. (c) S.E.C. File No.
Chris-Craft Industries, Inc. 94-1461226 1-2999
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1(d) Address of Issuer (e) Telephone No.
Street City State Zip Code ------------
767 Fifth Avenue New York NY 10153 Area Number
Code
212 421-0200
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2(a) Name of Person For Whose Account (b) Social Security (c) Relationship
the Securities are to be Sold No. or I.R.S. to Issuer
Ident. No.
Herbert J. Siegel Officer and
Director
(d) Address
Street City State Zip Code
767 Fifth Avenue New York NY 10153
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INSTRUCTION: THE PERSON FILING THIS NOTICE SHOULD CONTACT THE ISSUER TO OBTAIN
THE I.R.S. IDENTIFICATION NUMBER AND THE S.E.C. FILE NUMBER
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3(a) (b) (c) (d)
Title of the Name and Address of Each Broker S.E.C. USE ONLY Number of Shares Aggregate
Class of Through Whom the Securities Are to be --------------- or Other Units Market
Securities Offered or Each Market Maker Who is Broker-Dealer to be Sold Value
to be Sold Acquiring the Securities File Number (See Instr. 3(c)) (See Instr. 3(d))
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Common Stock Axiom Capital Management, Inc. 10,000 $505,625.00
399 Park Ave. as of 7/22/97
New York NY 10022
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(e) (f) (g)
Number of Shares Approximate Name of Each
or Other Units Date of Sale Securities
Outstanding (See Instr. 3(f)) Exchange
(See Instr. 3(e)) (Mo., Day, Yr.) (See Instr. 3(g))
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23,239,980 7/29/97 NYSE
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INSTRUCTIONS:
1. (a) Name of issuer 3. (a) Title of the class of securities to be sold
(b) Issuer's I.R.S. Identification Number (b) Name and address of each broker through whom the
(c) Issuer's S.E.C. file number, if any securities are intended to be sold
(d) Issuer's address, including zip code (c) Number of shares or other units to be sold (if debt
(e) Issuer's telephone number, including area code securities, give the aggregate face amount)
2. (a) Name of person for whose account the securities are (d) Aggregate market value of the securities to be sold
to be sold as of a specified date within 10 days prior to the
(b) Such person's Social Security or I.R.S. filing of this notice
Identification number (e) Number of shares or other units of the class
(c) Such person's relationship to the issuer (e.g., outstanding, or if debt securities the face amount
officer, director, 10 percent stockholder, or member thereof outstanding, as shown by the most recent
of immediate family of any of the foregoing) report or statement published by the issuer
(d) Such person's address, including zip code (f) Approximate date on which the securities are to be
sold
(g) Name of each securities exchange, if any, on which
the securities are intended to be sold
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TABLE I AND TABLE II
TABLE I--SECURITIES TO BE SOLD
FURNISH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION WITH RESPECT TO THE ACQUISITION OF THE
SECURITIES TO BE SOLD AND WITH
RESPECT TO THE PAYMENT OF ALL OR ANY PART OF THE PURCHASE PRICE OR OTHER
CONSIDERATION THEREFOR:
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Title of Date You Nature of Acquisition Name of Person From Amount of Date of Nature of Payment
the Class Acquired Transaction Whom Acquired Securities Payment
(If gift, also give Acquired
date donor acquired)
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Common Stock 3/4/94 Conversion of preferred Chris-Craft Industries 14,444 N/A N/A
stock held more than 20 Inc.
years
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INSTRUCTIONS:
1. If the securities were purchased and full payment therefore was not made in
cash at the time of purchase, explain in the table or in a note thereto the
nature of the consideration given. If the consideration consisted of any
note or other obligation, or if payment was made in installments describe
the arrangement and state when the note or other obligation was discharged
in full or the last installment paid.
2. If within two years after the acquisition of the securities the person for
whose account they are to be sold had any short positions, put or other
option to dispose of securities referred to in paragraph (d)(3) of Rule 144,
furnish full information with respect thereto.
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TABLE II--SECURITIES SOLD DURING THE PAST THREE MONTHS
FURNISH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION AS TO ALL SECURITIES OF THE ISSUER
SOLD DURING THE PAST THREE
MONTHS BY THE PERSON FOR WHOSE ACCOUNT THE SECURITIES ARE TO BE SOLD:
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Name and Address of Seller Title of Securities Sold Date of Sale Amount of Gross Procceds
Securities
Sold
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Jewish Communal Fund of New York Common Stock 5/2/97 5,997 $237,677
130 E. 59th St., Suite 1204 5/5/97 4,000 167,000
New York NY 10022 5/6/97 4,000 168,375.20
7/1/97 4,000 192,406.40
7/2/97 3,000 144,968.70
7/3/97 2,000 97,068.80
7/24/97 1,444 73,072.03
7/28/97 13,000 659,750.00
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REMARKS:
INSTRUCTIONS:
See the definition of "person" in paragraph (a) of Rule 144. Information is to
be given not only as to the person for whose account the securities are to be
sold but also as to all other persons included in that definition. In addition,
information shall be given as to sales by all persons whose sales are required
by paragraph (e) of Rule 144 to be aggregated with sales for the account of the
person filing this notice.
July 29, 1997
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(Date of Notice)
ATTENTION:
The person for whose account the securities to which this notice relates are to
be sold hereby represents by signing this notice that he does not know of any
material adverse information in regard to the current and prospective
operations of the issuer of the securities to be sold which has not been
publicly disclosed.
/s/ Herbert J. Siegel
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(Signature)
The notice shall be signed by the persons for whose account the securities
are to be sold. At least one copy of the notice shall be manually signed. Any
copies not manually signed shall bear typed or printed signatures.
ATTENTION: INTERNATIONAL MISSTATEMENTS OR OMISSION OF FACTS CONSTITUTE
FEDERAL CRIMINAL VIOLATIONS (SEE 18 U.S.C. 1001).
