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...whistle-stop near Crookston. Minn, one day last week, the brakeman on a Great Northern local turned to the conductor and said: "Well, we got the new boss." "Who?" asked the conductor. "John Budd?" "Yup," said the brakeman, "his father always wanted him to have...
...John Budd, son of longtime (1919-32) Great Northern President Ralph Budd, became the second youngest president of a major U.S. railroad.* During summer vacations from Yale Budd worked on a survey gang for the road, became assistant to the Great Northern's chief electrical engineer on graduation in 1930, and in 1940 (long after his father had left the road to head the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy) became a division head in Oregon...
After the war, in which he was a colonel in the Army, Budd became president of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, where he took the road from a $517,901 deficit in 1946 to a $844,803 profit in 1947. He returned to the Great Northern as operating vice president in 1949. His first job as Great Northern boss: buying $14.5 million worth of new equipment...
Instructor in English Robert Chapman and Louis O. Coxe, co-authors of "Billy Budd," share top honors in Variety's poll of New York drama critics for "most promising new playwright of the 1950-51 season...
...proud standards. Actor Roland plays the professional matador with an aplomb and mature authority that appear nowhere in the cast of The Brave Bulls. He gets good support from Stack and Actresses Page and Katy Jurado, who seem more convincing as Mexican women than Miroslava. Directed by onetime matador Budd Boetticher and edited (without screen credit) by Producer Wayne's good friend, John Ford, the bullfighting sequences outdo Rossen's in stylized grace and violent excitement...