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Chairman C. R. Smith had picked a man for the presidency of American Airlines, which became vacant fortnight ago when Marion Sadler quit in frustration and took off on a hunting trip in New England. And who was Sadler's successor? Why, it was Marion Sadler himself. No explanations were offered, no pronouncements delivered. Smith simply flashed one of his familiar, terse memos, known to insiders as "Smith-grams," to puzzled employees: "Good news! Mr. Marion Sadler is back at his desk this morning with the usual duties...
...return of the intense, volatile Sadler, 53, came after long talks with Smith, American's real boss, whose pride was hurt when Sadler walked out. Sadler became president of American last January as Smith's heir apparent, quit after repeated run-ins with rival executives. Before he would return, he apparently obtained from Smith reassurances of his authority as president, including clear command of flight operations, personnel, marketing and advertising; his $70,000 salary may also have been sweetened...
When Marion Sadler moved up to the presidency of American Airlines last January, he gained a seat in the cockpit and was handed a flight plan that called for higher altitudes for American. But he was not granted a firm grip on the stick. C. R. Smith, American's strong-minded president ever since the airline was founded in 1934, remained the boss from his new post of chairman. William J. Hogan, who had been Sadler's rival for the job, continued to hold on tightly to the purse strings as executive vice president and chairman...
Although he knew of Sadler's growing restiveness and had several times .before talked him out of resigning, gruff C. R. Smith, 65, seemed caught by surprise. He did not even have time to pick a successor. For the time being, in effect, Smith reassumed the presidency himself, and American returned to being the one-man show that it had been for years...
...Merce Cunningham believes that all movement is dance. Composer John Cage insists that all sound is music. Pop Artist Robert Rauschenberg thinks "every object is as good as every other object." But could they belong to derrière-garde London? After presenting 15 ballets in six performances at Sadler's Wells, the triarchy established itself as the most explosive event in British ballet since Martha Graham's London debut in 1954. At week's end the company had proved such a surprise smash that it transferred to another theater for 18 more performances...