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...story of the movie industry has long tempted U.S. novelists, and a few writers have brought Hollywood to fictional life e.g., F. Scott Fitzgerald in his unfinished elegy to the independent film artist, The Last Tycoon; Budd Schulberg in his acid-etched portrait of a ratty producer, What Makes Sammy Run? But most novelists who write about Hollywood become infected with the faults they set out to pillory: garish sentimentality and tabloid vulgarity...
Smooth Blend. Just how 37-year-old Wald does it rankles his detractors, who cultivate the legend that he is one of the Hollywood comers who sat for the composite portrait of the fast-rising heel in Budd Schulberg's novel, What Makes Sammy Run?. Like Sammy, he broke into the movies as a hack scripter. Like Sammy, Jerry has stoked his career with a singleminded ambition, a glib tongue, monumental speed and endurance, a flair for opportunism and an enormous talent for picking other men's brains and putting the pickings to work. Whether a credit...
...protégé of Railroader James J. Hill, Budd ran the Burlington with the dash and vision of the old Great Northern empire builder. Taking over the depression-troubled "Q" in 1932, he put it on its feet by such business catchers as the first dieselized streamliner. And he made the "Q" famous as a training school for railroaders-including the Rock Island's John Farrington, Santa Fe's Fred Gurley, the Great Northern's Frank Gavin...
...Budd also trained Harry C. Murphy, 57, to take over the "Q" presidency. The road should feel no jolt when the hand on the throttle changes next month; Murphy has served under Budd for 17 years, and has been vice president in charge of operations since...
Retiring Ralph Budd was much too full of beans to settle down yet. When he leaves the "Q," he will move into the chairmanship of the Chicago Transit Board at $35,000 a year...