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...picture against security. It shows that trouble sharpens the wit and security dulls it"). As currently released by RKO's Howard Hughes, who ended a brief partnership with Sturges in 1946, Mad Wednesday has suffered some cutting and at least one lamentable addition, e.g., a talking cab horse...
...first step was to find a bean pot with great potential aura. After a search through local potteries, he found a dandy: a 200-qt., 100-lb., 50-year-old affair. Then one day last week he loaded his bean pot into a Yellow Cab, had himself driven to a deserted highway excavation, eased the pot down into the mud ("to dirty it up a bit"), and hauled it back to his office. Next day, Boston papers received a special B.U. release: "A gigantic bean pot . . . was unearthed on the banks of the Charles River yesterday . . . Prof. Albert Morris . . . expert...
After a Washington meeting several years ago, a group of airline men were scrambling to get into the same cab. One of them was Eastern Air Lines' Captain Eddie Rickenbacker. Another was Delta Air Lines' President C. E. Woolman, whose web of routes from Charleston, S.C. to Fort Worth had long acted as feeder lines into Eastern Air Lines' lucrative routes from Florida to New York and New England. Would Woolman mind letting Eddie sit on his lap for a short ride? Cracked Woolman: "Well, Eddie, I've been helping support you for years...
Green Light? The deal-to be accomplished by a stock swap on the basis of book value-was by no means clinched. It depended on 1) approval by CAB of a pending Delta application for a route into New York from Atlanta (through Columbia, S.C.), which would connect up with the Northeast system, and 2) CAB approval of the merger itself. If approved, the merged lines would provide through service from Montreal and New England clear down to Miami, in direct competition with Rickenbacker's north-south business...
Nevertheless, both Northeast's Gardner and Delta's Woolman thought they could eventually get CAB's green light. Said Woolman: "This [type of] merger is what CAB . . . has been asking for. It is not a shotgun wedding, but something both want to improve operations...