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...William Christopher Handy, a young bandleader from Florence, Ala., first arrived on Beale Street. Ten years later, Handy and his band were hired to play at political rallies for a young candidate for mayor. As an innovation, Handy wrote a syncopated campaign song, Mister Crump (don't 'low no easy riders here), which became a local sensation. Later, more lyrics were added, the title was changed to Memphis Blues, and the song became an international hit. Before he left Memphis for New York City in 1917, Handy wrote Beale Street Blues, which immortalized the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Just Like Old Times | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...Crump to Danny Thomas. Beale Street has remained pretty much the same. The place has been cleaned up a bit (Peewee's now houses a dry-cleaning establishment, and Handy Park is green among the pool halls), but on payday nights and Saturdays, a portion of it is almost the same old dangerous, wide-open Beale Street. There is one difference, however: about a dozen years ago, under Boss Crump, all east-west streets in Memphis were designated avenues, and Beale Street became Beale Avenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Just Like Old Times | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...great backbone of President Crump's domain is 17,000 miles of railway through the most populous areas of Canada, and some 4,000 miles of branch lines into the northern U.S. Midwest. C.P.R. telegraphs, grain elevators, stockyards and abattoirs border the tracks. At principal stops are C.P.R.'s 15 hotels, including Quebec's famed Chateau Frontenac and the tourist meccas at Banff and Lake Louise. The company operates a fleet of ocean-going liners and freighters, as well as Canadian Pacific Air Lines, with routes to Asia, Australia, Latin America and Europe. C.P.R. also controls Consolidated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Top Railroader | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

C.P.R's new $75,000-a-year boss left school in his teens to work on the railroad at 40? an hour. Later, Crump finished high school in night classes, took a leave of absence in 1926 to earn a railway mechanical-engineering degree at Indiana's Purdue University. He was hired back as a night foreman, advanced through various jobs until his combination of hard-rock experience, engineering skill and business talent paid off with the top vice-presidency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Top Railroader | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...recent years, as aging (69) President William Mather cut back his own schedule, Vice President Crump shouldered much of the management. He directed the railway's dieselization program, cut costs and built up the profit margin ($27 million in 1954) despite a drop in revenues. Buck Crump has traveled nearly every mile of C.P.R.'s far-flung system, often in the engineer's cab, has a first-hand knowledge of his company's multiple enterprises and is known by sight by nearly every one of his 87,000 employees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Top Railroader | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

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