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...anything I could get my hands on"-the home office finally put Russell on the executive escalator. Shortly before Pearl Harbor he was named assistant to President A. D. McDonald, proceeded to ram through, against the judgment of his superiors, decisions on equipment allocation that enabled the S.P. to haul more freight for the Pacific war than any other railroad. In 1952, when the S.P. needed a new president, the board inevitably turned to Don Russell, who, at 51, became the line's youngest chief since the days of Founders Leland Stanford and Charles Crocker...
Rarely in his cunning career had The Saint been so brazenly flouted. At the very moment that the goateed detective of the U.S. comic strips was trying to solve a wave of Riviera art heists, a band of thieves last week made off with the biggest haul of masterpieces in modern French history: 57 canvases lifted off the unguarded, uninsured walls of the Annonciade Municipal Museum in chic Saint-Tropez. Value of the fric-frac, as a robbery is known in France: $1,500,000, including Matisses, Derains, Dufys, Vlamincks and a pair by Dunoyer de Segonzac, curator...
...week, the grey procession of escapees showing up at registration centers in West Berlin and West Germany leaped from the normal 500 a day to almost 1,500. At the big Marienfelde refugee barracks, the registration clerks were swamped, and West Berlin authorities had to charter extra planes to haul the escapees out to the West. One reason was the new food shortage in East Germany, which had brought tighter rationing of potatoes and butter, new crackdowns by Red Boss Walter Ulbricht. But the overriding impulse that sent East Germans by the hundreds surging across the frontier was a cold...
...scene for its Wide World of Sports series, offering a "$10,000 winner-take-all" prize. For nine sweaty hours, Palmer and Player, warming up for the 101st British Open at Birkdale this week, inched over the 6,936-yd. course, waiting for the lumbering tractors to haul the bluidy magic lanterns into position. Gibed The Scotsman: "A funeral procession could have given today's affair a start and a beating...
...Short Hauls, Long Debts. The New Haven's dubious distinction is to rank as the greatest commuter carrier among interstate railroads; it draws 33% of its revenue from passengers (v. the New York Central's 9%), loses upwards of $6,000.000 on them every year. Geography also hurts. A short-haul line, the New Haven meanders through 1,762 miles of a New England that has been losing many of its base industries to the low-wage South. Furthermore, trucks have proven faster and more flexible to service the new lighter industries of New England. Result...