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...except instead of Jujubes you've got the booze." The famous story is true that Gleason and the 240-lb. Shor once raced each other around the block, running in opposite directions. Gleason was standing coolly at the bar when Shor puffed in. Gleason had used a cab. but Shor, whose giant brain sometimes takes five, paid off the bet before he came to his senses and realized that Gleason had never passed...
...entertainment. The occasion was the National Football Foundation's annual banquet, and the first man on his feet was Bob Hope. He was in top form, and when he sat down again, Hope left the old footballers weak with laughter. "Things have changed," he said. "I took a cab from the hotel to come here, and Carmine De Sapio was driving it." Then he turned to the young collegian award winners and barked out a command: "Students out there, stand by! You could be in the next Cabinet! If you'd come from Harvard...
...keep the line from losing $5,200,000 in the first seven months of 1961. Meantime, the cost of maintaining the jets had become an unbearable burden. Six weeks ago, Hughes once again came to the rescue, guaranteed to pay Northeast's fuel bills. But when the CAB ominously wondered out loud whether he might be gaining control of the line illegally, Hughes abruptly withdrew his support...
Last week, on the heels of a desperate declaration by Northeast that it might have to suspend service within days for lack of fuel money, Hughes proposed that Atlas Corp. sell him its controlling interest in the airline. The CAB has never made any secret of its distaste for Hughes, and to invite him back into the airline business would be humiliating indeed. But since no one else seemed prepared to bail Northeast out, to rebuff Hughes would very likely mean that Northeast would become the second major U.S. airline (the first: Capital) to disappear within a year...
...another critical decision for the air line industry, the CAB last week rejected by a vote of 3 to 2 Continental Air Lines' much publicized plan to reduce jet fares by instituting a new, no-frills economy class in which tickets would cost 25% less than present coach rates (TIME, Nov. 10). The defeat of the Continental proposal delighted almost all the other major airlines, most of which had filed counterproposals demanding fare increases. But CAB's Kennedy-appointed Chairman Alan S. Boyd, one of the two members who wanted to give lower fares a try, dissented...