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...bring Trippe to heel, Tom Morgan teamed up with Banker Colt, (Another board member, Manhattan banker & Hearstman John Wesley Hanes, was in, then out of the cabal.) They argued that Pan Am's fortunes were at a low point politically. Trippe's Chosen Instrument talk had so stirred up the Administration that even President Truman had stepped in to make sure that Pan Am would have plenty of competition (TIME, June...
...Treasury. To succeed him in the Treasury, the President nominated the man who had twice before come in behind Vinson as he moved upward-Reconversion Boss John Wesley Snyder, a virtual unknown until Harry Truman moved to the White House. John Snyder and Harry Truman were buddies in World War I. They are the closest of cronies now. Perhaps that fact alone was enough for the President to pick him for the second "highest Cabinet post (and second in succession to the presidency...
...Wesley Jackson is his first post-Army book, and his second novel (the first: The Human Comedy). He wrote Wesley in "36 or 37 days," and explains: "I think something done swiftly has a little more art in it, and by art I mean cohesion...
...hunch is wrong. It is more like a parody on almost all his worst weaknesses. He has loosened his loose, gabby prose until it is as flabby as Nesselrode custard. His hero, Private Wesley Jackson, is a writer-of the Saroyan persuasion. He even has the Army job Saroyan had: writing scenarios for training and documentary films. And just to moisten the damp resemblance, Saroyan makes him a precocious Californian: Wesley is published in the New Republic when he is only 18-but it never goes to his head. Nothing does...
Scared Girl, Crazy World. Wesley gets his life direction (to find "his girl") while unconscious with pneumonia. But all the poor boy can find are careless loves. Like all Saroyan's "little people," he dreams of many "higher things," including a son as yet unconceived. Finally, in London, he finds "his girl"-an epitome of those vacant people who tinkle brightly through Saroyan stories like Christmas-tree bells...