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...last of the airlines' pilot-presidents was finally brought down to earth last week. He was J. H. ("Slim") Carmichael, 51, a lanky (6 ft. 4 in.), windburned throttle jockey who barnstormed, crop-dusted, and flew the early air mail routes before taking off in 1937 to help run what later became Capital Airlines. He piloted the line out of the red, turned tidy profits by introducing domestic coach fares, in 1954 brought U.S. aviation toward the jet age with British Viscounts. But while building Capital into a major competitor. Slim Carmichael also made himself a raft of troubles...
...popular vote plurality also wins all its unit votes; the candidate with the most unit votes wins the primary. Under such a system a candidate can trail in popular votes and be elected. In 1946, for instance, red-gallusty Gene Talmadge lost the popular vote to Opponent James V. Carmichael, 297,245 to 313,389, beat Carmichael in unit votes, 242 to 146, thereby won a fourth term as governor...
...ride out the storm last week. Capital President David H. Baker and Chairman J. H. ("Slim") Carmichael flew to London, hoping to stretch out payments on their Viscount fleet. In addition. Capital is economizing everywhere, may trim its 8,000-man payroll by 10%. Yet its main hope rests with CAB. Barring subsidy, it wants a healthy fare increase. Without it, Capital may eventually be forced to shut down or merge, possibly with Northwest Airlines...
...first commercial TV series, Educational TV's Shakespeare Scholar Frank Baxter has to present such combinations as Thomas Mitchell playing Socrates and Claudette Colbert portraying Mary Roberts Rinehart. In his latest drama from real life, I Get Along Without You Very Well, he managed more persuasive casting: Hoagy Carmichael and Walter Winchell playing themselves. The story was a treacly tale about a search for an anonymous lyricist, but Hoagy's sangfroid and Pommery piano made a nice counterpoint to Walter's Winchellisms ("Human interest always has a heart"), some of which were not even in the script...
...Carmichael, Attenborough, and Maleson all turn in slick comic performances, and Jill Adams, as Sally Smith, is sweetly seductive. All in all, the Boulting Brothers have dealt another subtle blow to the humorless corpse of time and institution, and college audiences and old ladies alike chortle in appreciation...