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...called Greyhound Rent-A-Car, Inc. Concentrating at first on long-term leasing of car and truck fleets to business firms, it will move into hourly and daily rentals to individuals early this summer. The twelve-month goal of Greyhound's new president, ex-Railroader Arthur S. Genet (TIME, Nov. 14), is a fleet of 10,-ooo cars and trucks, third largest in the rental business...
...Arthur S. Genet, 46, a railroader, was named president of Greyhound Corp., biggest U.S. bus company. He will succeed Orville Swan Caesar, president since 1946, who will move up to board chairman. Genet, whom Caesar hails as a "wizard in the field of traffic promotion," was born in Manhattan, became controller of New York's Central Coal Co. Inc. at the age of 30. He began his railroading career in 1943 as an officer of National Carloading Corp., became its president (at 35) a year later. In 1946 he became assistant vice president of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway...
...Pillar), most U.S. readers will hardly need New Directions' radar to detect the trend; but with sophomoric emphasis N.D. XI detects it anyhow in half a dozen inverted short stories and prose fragments. The queen of the queerer pieces is a collection of excerpts from Parisian Jean Genet's lushly symbolic novel, Our Lady of Flowers (explains Editor Laughlin in an introductory note: "Genet uses the pronouns more or less interchangeably...
...Other ejected diplomats: in 1793, French Minister Edmond Charles Genet, because he had been appealing to the American people to upset President Washington's neutrality laws; in 1888, British Ambassador Lionel Sackville-West, after publication of a letter he wrote to a U.S. citizen advising him to vote for the re-election of President Cleveland...
...Writer Janet Flanner, who as "Genet" filed some of the best European dispatches of the last decade, has no need to be overmodest...