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...replace Trowbridge, Johnson made an expectably unexpected choice: Cyrus Rowlett Smith, 68, a salty, poker-loving Texan who took over American Airlines in 1934 and guided its growth through the '50s (1967 revenues: $842 million). A brilliant executive, "C.R." helped organize the Army's wartime Air Transport Command, of which he was deputy commander, and wound up a major general at war's end, when he returned to American to steer it into the postwar age of commercial aviation. He resigned only last month as American's chief executive officer and remains chairman of the board...
That does not seem to bother School Director Peter Marin, 32, who has a B.A. in English from Swarthmore and an M.A. in English from Columbia but was fired from Los Angeles State College because of his "eccentric" teaching ways. A quondam poet who once played poker for a living in Manhattan, he contends that "it doesn't matter what goes on at this school as long as the kids are learning...
...heightened sense of herself. The other woman sets off to find sin and excitement and discovers in stead spiritual narcosis and boredom. Most Bowles characters seem to suffer from a total lack of motivation; they must be seen and interpreted solely in their relation to one another. The poker-faced prose is distinguished by a dry irony and deadpan humor that make Jane Bowles a kind of Buster Keaton of literature...
...farm. "I realized that this place was kind of a hub in the Pacific. I thought it would be fun to come in and start with nothing and pioneer this thing." He saved up $3,000 for a start, but lost almost half of it in a poker game on the way back to the U.S. With his remaining funds, he bought cheap watches, jewelry and trinkets, and sent them to a Guamanian friend to sell. To get back to Guam as a civilian, he had to sign up for a year as a U.S. civil service employee...
...income by such exploits as a Ping-Pong game in which he spotted an opponent 19 points but won the game-and the other boy's automobile. After four years of Navy service in World War II, in the course of which he won $78,000 playing poker, Kauffman went back to Kansas City and began selling drugs. When his commissions and territory were cut back because he was outearning the president of the company for which he worked, Kauffman rebelled. "I was so disgusted," he recalls, "that I quit. But I knew I could sell drugs...