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...sense of hustle became evident last May when Gerald Trautman, chairman of Greyhound Corp., the conglomerate that owns the bus company, named the line's new president: James L. Kerrigan, who had joined the firm at 17 as a clerk. Kerrigan, the father of seven children, is eager to attract more young passengers. As part of this drive, Greyhound sponsored a concert tour by Rock Singer Mason Williams, part of which was made into a NET television show. The company has begun direct service linking a dozen colleges with major cities and has hired student representatives on campus...
While railroads and some airlines are dropping short-haul routes, Kerrigan plans to pile on more nonstop runs of 200 to 300 miles. In a "Greyhound Savings Time" ad campaign, the line is stressing the difference in fares between air and bus travel. It notes that a round-trip ticket between Chicago and Detroit is $27 cheaper by bus than by air. Other sample savings: $17 between Sacramento and San Francisco, and $25 between New York and Washington...
Greyhound also wants to bring more affluent passengers to the bus. Kerrigan is expanding a VIP service, which at some terminals enables riders to check their baggage at the ticket counter, leave their coats with a steward, travel nonstop for up to 200 miles and arrive at their destination with nearly the speed of air travel (counting the drive to and from the airport). To save suburbanites the trouble of traveling into the city to catch a bus, Greyhound built satellite terminals near mass transit systems on the edges of Chicago and Cleveland-an idea that it plans to extend...
...John Kerrigan, who barely sneaked by two years ago, rolled to victory this month in the school committee race, politicking has brought him the chairmanship, and the disclosure of his ties with a Dorchester school repairs contractor got him into the headlines. Thievery, or the hint of it, is popular in a city that once elected a mayor after he had served a jail sentence for embezzlement of city funds. One could turn fraud into election if he attached a Robin Hood charisma to it. In the best James Michael Curley tradition. Kerrigan won in a landslide...
Hicks wants the councilship as a steppingstone for a higher office, and has hinted that she might run for John McCormack's seat when he retires. Kerrigan is interested in the mayoralty. The electorate is aware of these ambitions, but this awareness did not keep Kevin White, who clearly has had his eye on the governor's chair, out of the mayoralty...