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...Cabinet, an honor guard from the 82nd Airborne Division and a 21-gun salute. President Aleman would address a joint session of the Congress, stay at least one night at the White House, travel to Mount Vernon on the presidential yacht Williams burg, and use the presidential Pullman for a trip to New York (which also planned an oldtime, ticker-tape reception...
First, or Sixth? This week, rednecked from Cuban sun, the question-mark Brooklyn Dodgers rolled north by ship and Pullman. They looked neither bad nor good, only perplexed. One of their deepest perplexities was the conduct of their manager, Leo Durocher. A bridegroom for the third time, he was acting as if he had never been on a honeymoon before. Some days he hadn't even showed up for practice. Other days, chewing gum thoughtfully, he spent most of the time gazing up at his screen-actress bride, Laraine Day, sitting in a box and chewing...
Alleghany Corp.'s Robert R. Young took a light drubbing from the U.S. Supreme Court last week. It knocked out his hope of getting control of the Pullman sleeping-car business. Young's Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. had bid for it when anti-trust action forced Pullman, Inc. to put the business up for sale. But Young's bid had been thrown out in favor of one made by a pool of 43 other railroads. Young had cried "monopoly." So had the Department of Justice, which put the matter up to the Supreme Court. But the Court...
Otherwise, scrappy Bob Young was riding high. The day after the Pullman decision, the Interstate Commerce Commission approved his plan to merge the Pere Marquette Railway Co. with the C. & O. The C. & O. has controlled the Pere Marquette since 1929, but, by integrating them, Young hoped to strengthen both, effect operating economies...
Sidney Bechet (pronounced Be-shay), who looks like a sleepy Pullman porter, has been talking through a clarinet for more than 40 years. Last week, in a smoky joint called Jimmy Ryan's on Manhattan's brassy 52nd Street, Sidney was proving again that he is the best Dixieland two-beat jazzman anywhere on clarinet or soprano saxophone (which looks like an oversize clarinet...