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Four years ago, Moore, now 41, entered the first big deal to put him all over the map: he merged with a Southwest bus line owned by Texas Tycoon Clint Murchison (TIME, July 21, 1947) and with another line, owned by the Santa Fe Railroad, which had routes in a dozen Midwest and Western states. (Murchison still owns 26% of Continental; the Santa Fe and Moore's original group own the rest...
...University of Southern California, 34 men solemnly marched into a banquet hall one evening last week for a special commencement ceremony. They were trainmasters, paymasters, auditors and public-relations men. Their ages ranged from 28 to 54. Employees of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, they had just finished a rugged new six-week course: how to think clearly about the society in which they live...
This ambitious project was the brainchild of Fred G. Gurley, 63, Santa Fe president and a U.S.C. trustee. Boss of 65,000 employees and 13,000 miles of track, Gurley had watched his railroad prosper, but with the uneasy suspicion that it was failing in a primary duty: to help its personnel understand the free-enterprise economy in which they operate. Last spring Gurley suggested that U.S.C.'s President Fred D. Fagg Jr. organize a new course just for the Santa Fe...
...suffered with dignity and without complaint, an auto da fe of criticism such as few men . . . have ever endured." But, I think, the years in passage have justified much of what he stood for; and, if time has washed away the shouting bitterness of other years, we can still look back and say-there was a gentleman...
...news of these preparations reached to Santa Fe. There, Roman Catholic Archbishop Edwin V. Byrne sat himself down and wrote a pastoral letter that was read in Albuquerque's Catholic churches last week. Wrote the archbishop: "Such beauty contests are an appeal to the baser instincts ... As the archbishop of the Catholics in this area, I forbid any Catholic to participate or help in any way in said beauty competition, and I entreat parents to prohibit their daughters from doing...