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...hero, the talk proper to a genius. His ideas gush out in a torrent that overwhelms friends. His talk ranges from obscure Japanese painters to customs of American Indians, from Swiss primitives to Buddhist philosophers. He has argued Communism with Trotsky Hinduism with Nehru. In his dazzling transitions and far-flung references, he is a conversational wonder of the world made the more difficult to follow by his nervous facial tics and a constant snuffling into his hand caused by lifelong asthma. He is too intelligent for me," his brilliant old friend, André Gide, once confessed in admiration...
...worked up to Socony's presidency in 24 years. While remaining as the company's chief executive officer, he was succeeded as president by Albert L. Nickerson, 44, who joined the company as a service-station attendant after graduating from Harvard in 1933, has directed its far-flung foreign trade as a vice president since...
Glass House. Coordinating the labors of these far-flung agencies and linking them to the U.N. proper is the job of the Secretariat: some 3,100 international civil servants who work in the U.N.'s "glass house," overlooking Manhattan's East River. A shaft of gleaming white marble boxing 5,400 green-tinted windows, the U.N. capitol was built on land that was paid for by John D. Rockefeller Jr. (price: $8,500,000) and furnished with teak from Burma, Jerusalem stone from Israel, carpets from India and Iran, and dramatically barren decoration by the Scandinavians...
...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...
...last week lost his last fingerhold on the green-tinted Shamrock Hotel. For $625,000 he sold Hilton Hotels his redemptive right to the Shamrock, thus gave up the privilege of buying back the property that cost him $21 million. With that went the last significant chunk of the far-flung McCarthy empire, which in its heyday encompassed big Southwestern oil and gas fields, export-import companies, a Detroit steel plant, weekly newspapers, a Houston bank...