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...Buck") Crump moved up to the road's presidency nine years ago. Crump has awakened the giant. Now the Canadian financial community is watching its performance-and its potential-with deep interest...
...president moved slowly at first, was accused of copycat management because he adopted many innovations of the government-owned Canadian National. But Crump steadily picked up momentum, has become a hard man to brake. He has entirely dieselized the road, shorn off many of its unprofitable branch lines and short-haul passenger trains, aggressively adopted piggybacking and bought the world's largest railroad-owned computer to direct freight and handle accounting. Result: in 1963's expanding economy, after a monotonous downgrade run, C.P.R.'s earnings rose 24% to $40.1 million, the highest since 1957. Canadian Pacific Airlines...
...Senate in 1948, tangled with Memphis Boss Edward H. Crump, who labeled Kefauver a "pet coon." Kefauver laboriously replied, "I may be a pet coon, but I'll never be Mr. Crump's pet coon." At his next campaign appearance he clapped a coonskin cap on his head, pointed to the tail and said, "A coon may have rings around his tail, but this coon will never have a ring through his nose." He beat the Crump machine, and more important than the ridiculous cap was Kefauver's decision to shake at least 500 hands...
...Flying Tigers. The oldest man in the garden was General Charles E. Kilbourne, 90, who won his medal in the Philippine insurrection in 1899; he climbed a telegraph pole to mend a broken line in a hail of enemy fire. The youngest was Sergeant First Class Jerry K. Crump, 30, who won the medal in Korea when he threw him self over an exploding enemy grenade to save four companions. President Kennedy honored them all as "our most distinguished American citizens...
...Crump is aware of his novel's short comings. When you're writing such things, he says, "how can you keep from sounding vulgar?" Despite this, Crump is writing another book, about a Negro prizefighter. Not much in Burn, Killer, Burn! suggests that it will be even a fair book. But any one who has come as far as Paul Crump is a hard man to bet against...