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Tidy & Tiny. The short lines bear such quaint names as the Arcade & Attica, the Belfast & Moosehead Lake, the Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington and the Tweetsie. Most of them are operated by small businessmen for whom railroading is still a shirtsleeve job and the romance of the rails a pleasant bonus. But apart from a handful, like North Carolina's Tweetsie, and the Reader Railroad in southwest Arkansas, which have made their puffing steam locomotives colorful and profitable tourist attractions, romance is not what the short lines are run for. Says an Interstate Commerce Commission official: "There's money...
...interest of self-survival, the short lines are often even more aggressive than their big brothers. When the failure of local industries threatened its existence, Maine's Belfast & Moosehead Lake built a chicken-feed plant along its line, leased it to an operator and began a feed haul from the plant to the Maine Central. In Texas, where every one of the 13 short-line railroads is making a profit, Veteran Railroader Joseph P. Kerr bought the tenmile, three-diesel Georgetown Railroad five years ago, persuaded nearly a dozen plants to locate along his line, and last year netted...
...Midst laurels stood: Archibald MacLeish, 71, named Amherst's poet in residence to succeed the late Robert Frost; Playwright-Producer Sir Tyrone Guthrie, 63, installed in the honorary post of chancellor of Queen's University in Belfast, succeeding Britain's late World War II strategist, Lord Alanbrooke; Poet and Critic Allen Tate, 64, awarded the $5,000 Chancie and William Booth Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets by a board of such peers as W. H. Auden and Randall Jarrell; Architect Le Corbusier (born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris), 76, promoted to grand officier, next to highest...
...Hooker and Jewel, the Church of England has always been blessed with divines who could write of their faith with clarity, balance, style and, sometimes, with humor as well. Lewis - a layman who never took orders or a seminary course - had all these qualities in full measure. Born in Belfast and baptized into Anglicanism's Church of Ireland, Lewis tossed off the remnants of his childhood faith at prep school, professed no belief at all through World War I and Oxford. No sudden illumination brought him back to the church; it was, he claimed, sheer logic that drove...
...plot is simple. When an Irish boy is arrested in Belfast for killing a policeman, Monsewer's IRA colleagues kidnap a 19-year-old English soldier and bring him to the house as a hostage for the life of "the Bel-fast martyr." The soldier falls in love with a maid and makes friends with the other occupants, but when he begs them to help him escape, they refuse. There is a surprise ending, which we won't spoil...