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...sedate organizations. Once, in a typically caustic vein at a typically ragged rehearsal, Holmes announced: "This has got to come to a screeching halt." He may well have expected the bandsmen to stop screeching, but as for a half, well, in spite of money troubles. Yale brickbats, and fatiguing greyhound bus trips,--the Sprit of the Harvard Bend Goes On and On.MALCOLM H. HOLMES...
...consumer goods in the first place. Chief power-nibblers among the old Ryan groups: Alleghany Corp. President Allan Kirby, financial partner of Robert R. Young (see above); New Mexico Publisher Robert McKinney, a cousin of Bob Young; ex-Governor Charles Edison of New Jersey; Chairman Arthur M. Hill of Greyhound Corp.'s executive committee; and Houston Oilman George Brown...
...while touring Europe, becomes the unwitting carrier of a set of horrendously important atomic blueprints. Since not only the original owners of these plans (Our Side), but also two competing sets of Middle European badmen are after the documents, Kaye soon assumes the position of the rabbit in a greyhound race. The epic chases and subtrefuges which result, however, have their edges dulled by limp globs of plot which necessarily precede and follow each comedy sequence...
...Goal. With a Greyhound System spread over the U.S., Caesar began to buy out the partially owned lines and his railroad partners. He is now ready to spend $25.8 million on such deals (in addition to the $82 million already spent postwar) when ICC approves...
This would give him the 1,130-mile Blue Ridge System, the 997-mile Tennessee Coach Co., and buy out two of his last four big railroad partners, the Pennsylvania and the Southern Pacific, who now have big holdings in Pennsylvania Greyhound and Pacific Greyhound. Greyhound would then be getting three-fourths of its revenues from bus lines that it wholly owns. But for Caesar, 75% is just a way stop. His goal is to make Greyhound sole owner of all its lines, a transport system covering all 48 states...