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...crowded with correspondence and conferences. Harriman assigns administrative detail to others, reserves policymaking for himself. Invariably he schedules a "business lunch"; among his guests have been almost all of Europe's bigwigs. For dinner he usually invites his own aides. Noon or night, the conversation sticks to politico-economic lines; Harriman has no small talk...
Under the increasing strictures of state control-and in a closely regulated industry-he has also managed to keep a maximum of freedom because, as one politico commented: Trippe has not wasted his time and strength fighting regulation; he has learned to make it work for him. He did well under a Republican administration, did even better under the New Deal. His political fences are always carefully tended. Pan Am Vice President Pryor, onetime Republican national committeeman from Connecticut, knows his way round G.O.P. circles in Washington. On the Democratic side, Pan Am has Vice President J. Carroll Cone, onetime...
...cars, and at year's end was sadly muttering: "All I need is money." If there was a Businessman of the Year it was Automaker Paul G. Hoffman, who left his job as president of Studebaker and climbed into the driver's seat of ECA, the biggest politico-business enterprise in world history. He got it running with a minimum of gear clashing, and Congress found little need for back-seat driving...
...election after re-election and an unshakable spot in the hearts of local citizens and constituents. This was Mickey the Good Samaritan Mickey the friend who stuck by the veterans in issues, on housing, a memorial plaque, and additional burying space at the Cambridge Cemetery. This was the "politico" who took enough time to drive hundreds of Kerry Corner youngsters out into the country on Sunday mornings. This was the bespectacled little man who on Saturday morning, personality delivered baskets of food to poor and needy families. This was Councilman Michael A. Sullivan the vote getter...
...Left by the deaths of Historian Charles A. Beard, Educator Nicholas Murray Butler, Critic Royal Cortissoz, Scholar-Editor-Politico Wilbur L. Cross. A.A.A.L. membership (which is for life) is limited...