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Rhythm & Pitch. Ernst Krenek's atonal Santa Fe Time Table was in itself enough to put a tremolo in the larynx of most singers. A long, desert-dry work, its lyrics is a list of all the station names between Albuquerque and Los Angeles* The chorus rattled down the right-of-way like a highballing freight, then proceeded to an even more formidable test: Schonberg's late works, Dreimal...
...hearing in San Francisco, Ernest S. Marsh, normally soft-spoken president of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, denounced the rival Southern Pacific for its attempt to take over the lucrative little Western Pacific which Marsh wants for the Santa Fe. A Southern Pacific-Western Pacific combination, charged Marsh, "would not even be in keeping with a plan to consolidate Western railroads into as few as two competing systems." Echoed Western Pacific's own President Frederic B. Whitman: if the ICC approved the SoPac's plans, "they would do it on the basis that a rail monopoly...
...Blunt-spoken Donald J. Russell, 61, president of the Southern Pacific railroad, geared last week for battle. Testifying before an Interstate Commerce Commission hearing in San Francisco about the fight between the Southern Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe for control of the small but strategic Western Pacific Railroad, Don Russell argued that S.P. control of the Western would eliminate "wasteful duplication of facilities." Russell, head of the railroad with the biggest profits in the U.S. (1960 earnings: $65,400,000), is an ardent champion of mergers of competing "side-by-side" railroads. But the rival Santa Fe, whose...
While John flew P-39s in the Mediterranean and P-40s in South China, the Marines sent Clint Jr. through Duke University, where he graduated top man in his engineering class. The war over, John went back to Yale for some serious studying, then headed out to Santa Fe where Clint Sr. had lined him up a $175-3-month job in a bank. Meanwhile Clint Jr. was getting a master's in math at M.I.T. In 1950 they joined forces in Dallas...
WESTERN RAIL FIGHT for control of Western Pacific (TIME, Feb. 17) will involve the Denver & Rio Grande Western, key link between the Western Pacific and Midwestern cities. Union Pacific and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy are buying Rio Grande stock in defensive moves to prevent Santa Fe from setting up a direct Chicago-to-San Francisco route should it win control of Western Pacific...