NEARING 65, salty C.R Smith last week moved up to chairmanand still chief executiveafter 23 years as American Airlines' president. Succeeding him as president of the nation's second largest airline: Vice President-General Manager Marion Sadler, 52, a onetime teacher who joined American in 1941 as a ramp attendant. Tennessee-born Sadler, who holds a master's degree in literature from Duke, had worked up to Buffalo sales manager when he was summoned to New York in 1955 on the strength of his sales-manual writing ability. In 1959, he was jumped over senior executives to general manager, told to hold costs while...
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