[Mick]

EJ Holub played both MLB and center for the Dallas Texans when the AFL played its first year.

Lamar Hunt story. I was with Barry Tompkins for an NBC Grandstand (host Len Berman if anybody remembers) interview with Mr.Hunt. Great guy. He was wearing a beautiful navy sports coat and Barry remarked about it after the interview. Hunt chuckled and said that he always bought quality but was frugal. He said that the jacket was at least 25 years old.

We were flying on to Denver or Salt Lake and I took my first class seat (film union contract). Later I got up to use the head but there was some trouble with our latrine. So I entered the coach cabin and in about the tenth row was Hunt sitting in a window seat. Here was a multi billionaire (oil) frugally ensconced with the common folk. A very nice man.

And there you were, a union guy, coming from the front of the plane.  Great story!

BC

When I worked at the Big Four as a director, they  didn't pay us much, but they let us travel first class.  I remember flying British Airways which had seven (7) classes on this particular plane, and I was in the first class, where your seat turns into a bed.  My boss and his girlfriend/secretary were in the same section.  The price of the ticket amounted to just over 5% of my annual salary.

One of my peers was based in Dallas but reported to a man in London and he spent 100 nights a year or so in that city.  He negotiated a deal with his boss in which he would fly coach, but the firm would rent a flat on Savile Row for him.  Seemed like a fair trade.

[Mick]

EJ Holub played both MLB and center for the Dallas Texans when the AFL played its first year.

Lamar Hunt story. I was with Barry Tompkins for an NBC Grandstand (host Len Berman if anybody remembers) interview with Mr.Hunt. Great guy. He was wearing a beautiful navy sports coat and Barry remarked about it after the interview. Hunt chuckled and said that he always bought quality but was frugal. He said that the jacket was at least 25 years old.

We were flying on to Denver or Salt Lake and I took my first class seat (film union contract). Later I got up to use the head but there was some trouble with our latrine. So I entered the coach cabin and in about the tenth row was Hunt sitting in a window seat. Here was a multi billionaire (oil) frugally ensconced with the common folk. A very nice man.

And there you were, a union guy, coming from the front of the plane.  Great story!

BC

When I worked at the Big Four as a director, they  didn't pay us much, but they let us travel first class.  I remember flying British Airways which had seven (7) classes on this particular plane, and I was in the first class, where your seat turns into a bed.  My boss and his girlfriend/secretary were in the same section.  The price of the ticket amounted to just over 5% of my annual salary.

One of my peers was based in Dallas but reported to a man in London and he spent 100 nights a year or so in that city.  He negotiated a deal with his boss in which he would fly coach, but the firm would rent a flat on Savile Row for him.  Seemed like a fair trade.