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...board room at T.W.A. headquarters in Kansas City, Mo., peeled off his coat, shouted to a friend, "I feel pretty good now, Swede, let's wrestle." LaMotte Turck Cohu, 51, felt pretty good because he had just been elected president of T.W.A. to replace Jack Frye...
...Paul E. Richter, who helped Jack Frye put T.W.A. on the air map, quit as T.W.A.'s executive vice president with some harsh words: "I cannot agree with the policies, the programs, or the procedures proposed by the controlling stockholder" (i.e., Howard Hughes). The fourth top man to quit this year, Richter's departure left T.W.A. with little airwise talent on the executive committee temporarily running the line...
...struggle for control of T.W.A. has been so rough and bitter that friends of Jack Frye thought he would surely look for a nice easy job after he quit as T.W.A.'s president. But this week Frye was elected board chairman of General Aniline & Film Corp., now controlled by the Office of Alien Property Custodian. And G.A.F. is involved in a squabble that makes T.W.A.'s look like a simple game of hopscotch...
Wrestling finals in the lightweight classes were completed yesterday, with Howie Schless of Winthrop downing Lowell's Kenneth Chun 5 to 0 in the 121-pound event, while the 136-pound crown went to Whitney Frye of Lowell House by default...
Hughes was so worried that he even tried to get Pan American Airways to take over T.W.A. through an exchange of stock. Pan Am President Juan Trippe said no. Then Hughes reportedly tried to persuade Frye to give up T.W.A.'s money-losing international routes, concentrate on domestic routes. Frye said no. Last week, as he settled down for a long rest on his Arizona ranch, Frye snapped...