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They looked exactly like what they are: oldtime railroad hands who had prospered after their retirement from hard labor. Alexander Fell Whitney is an affable man who asks almost everybody on second meeting to "Call me Al." He is square-shouldered and peppery, a handsome, wavy-haired oldster (73) with a keen eye for his well-tailored clothes and his role as an "Important Man." Alvanley Johnston stepped down from the cab of a locomotive and into a rumpled blue suit about 40 years ago. At 71, his blue eyes still have the engineer's squint, his round face...
...terrible-tempered star performer was in top form, churlishly contemptuous of questioners and questions. Lean, sarcastic Senator Millard Tydings put oldster Ickes in the witness chair for cross-examination of his testimony about the nub of the Pauley case: the "rawest proposition" which Harold Ickes said Democratic National Treasurer Ed Pauley had made to him about tidelands oil and campaign contributions (TIME...
...caught the eye of Westinghouse's aging board chairman, A. W. Robertson. Ex-Lawyer Robertson liked the hardworking, thoroughgoing look of young Bill Price. So in 1943, Robertson brought in Price as a W-E vice president, started grooming him to take over the presidency from oldster George Bucher, who last week became vice chairman of the board...
...Haven Railroad's Colonial chuffed into Boston's dimly lit Back Bay Station, the crowd surged up against the train gates. More than 1,000 were there, cheering and jangling cowbells. When a heavy-lidded, heavy-jowled man in a grey fedora stepped off the train, one oldster cried: "Three cheers for the greatest figure in America...
When it was over, the guest of honor, a fat, button-nosed oldster who is regarded by his cronies as the spit & image of Jiggs, hustled back to work. George McManus was a little worried at taking two hours for lunch, even if Mr. Hearst was paying the bill...