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...announces his biases at the outset of The Good Old Boys: He believes, probably correctly, that the South as a distinct and different part of America is dying, and that his job is to chronicle what's left of it. He writes about sports, failure, country music, religion and small-town life but for the most part avoids sounding like he's spouting the standard Southern cliches. His subject matter is "Real Southy" enough to warm any New York magazine editor's heart, to be sure, but Hemphill consistently succeeds at writing with a deep and genuine feeling...
...routes are heavily concentrated in the densely populated East ern Seaboard area. Another reason is the management strategy of Barnes, 57, an earthy, fiercely cost-efficient administrator. In 21 years in the corporate cockpit, Barnes has steadily strengthened Allegheny through precise scheduling and by ridding it of its small-town runs. Barnes also runs a marketing and planning division that probably is the best in the industry. Two years ago, he inspired a joint ticketing and routing operation with Pan American that enables an Allegheny passenger in, say, Canton, Ohio, or Lexington, Ky., to buy a single ticket straight through...
...photographer, seems about to marry the ironmonger's daughter and settle down to a lifetime of prams with now and then a pint at the corner pub. But a West Country Emma Bovary puts Pip's still-life future out of focus. Bored to a frenzy by small-town domesticity, Lorna, a doctor's wife, passes on to Pip the 20th century's most communicable disease: restlessness. With her red sports car, and golden hair, Lorna comes close to parodying a jazz-age flapper. Still, while the lowerbrow in the schizoid Delderfield reader may thrill...
Dewar, 51, has been in training for the challenge since 1960, when then President Harry Cunningham plucked him out of the company's legal department and made him his personal assistant. The son of a factory foreman, Dewar grew up in small-town Michigan and joined Kresge in 1949. He became president in 1970 and chairman...
...scarcely represents a radical alternative to 68-year-old Fulbright. Both are moderate progressives in a Southern context. An adroit, crowd-pleasing campaigner, Bumpers exploed into Arkansas politics by running against Republican Governor Winthrop Rockefeller in 1970 and burying him in a landslide. In the statehouse, the former small-town lawyer proved to be an adept administrator. He reorganized the government, improved educational and medical facilities, and lured more industry into the state. But after two terms as the nation's lowest paid Governor ($10,000 a year), he became bored with the job and anxious to move...