The naming of American Express' Gary Chittenden as chief financial officer on Sunday didn't give much in theway of clues as to Citi's future direction, though Crittenden did oversee cost-containment programs at the big card issuer and the spinoff of its Ameriprise Financial unit last year.
Here is Mark Twain onthe Pony Express in 1861 writing in a style that the New Yorker made its own 100 years later, all theway down to using words for numbers.