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...world's biggest privately owned railroad moved a hard-driving engineer into the front cab last week. Norris Roy ("Buck") Crump, 50, a veteran railroader who began his career as a 16-year-old track laborer, was elected president of the Canadian Pacific Railway Co., the $2 billion transportation empire, largely owned by U.S. and British investors, that is Canada's richest corporation...

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

...Headquarters was milling with Nationalists in khaki shorts and shirts, carrying Tommy guns. Small-arms fire was rattling from the Binh Xuyen a couple of blocks down the road, and Nationalist Tommy-gun fire rattled back at them. Next came the sullen, unmistakable, paralyzing crump of mortars, three in the courtyard outside, filling headquarters with dust and falling plaster. A deep red flame spouted out of a weapons carrier parked next to our car. Black, oily smoke drifted upwards. We could hear a staccato cry ai ai ai from someone who had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Showdown | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...Butler started out by learning to class cotton in Memphis' Front Street sample rooms. Classified 4-F because of a back deformity, he joined the F. M. Crump cotton company and worked there through World War II. At war's end, while others talked recession, Butler bought cotton gins. He built a stake, put it in the cotton market; in one day he reportedly made $1.000,000 speculating in cotton futures. He moved into soybeans, coffee and other commodities, and by last year had $11million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: A Southern Gentleman | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

Gone are the past greats such as Phil Waring, who led the nation in scoring two years ago, Tom Crump, once All-New England defense star, and Steve Hartog, once considered the top goalie in the East. Instead of the powerful squad of last year, Munro has been forced to depend largely on inexperienced sophomores...

Author: By Winthrop P. Smith, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 4/1/1955 | See Source »

...influence of a Spartan but cultured mother and a cherished heritage from his father, a Confederate cavalry officer. Your statement that he "roared around town yelling 'Hiya, boy' " is simply not true. He was not uncouth, as suggested, but very much a gentlemanly man. E. H. CRUMP JR. Memphis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 8, 1954 | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

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