Word: brakeman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...away from Hollywood's familiar faces, Scripter-Director-Producer Robert Rossen filmed most of his picture in Stockton, Calif, (pop. 66,000), casting townsfolk in all but the principal roles. He used a railroad brakeman as Pa Stark, the city's sheriff as the sheriff, a local preacher as the preacher. In the big crowd scene just before Willie Stark's assassination, he turned four cameras loose at once on Stockton's non-professional extras to get their unrehearsed reactions to Crawford's speech...
...bobsled championships of the world to be decided, the tourists were kept on the sidelines. Hell-for-leathers from three nations-France, Switzerland and the U.S. -used oil and emery-paper to make their sleds even slicker and faster. One of the bobbers was 235-lb. Bill Casey, brakeman for one of the U.S. four-man entries. While the two-man championships were being run, Casey lined up with the spectators at perilous Shady Corner, a hairpin curve that has to be taken just right...
Next morning, after workmen had spent all night spraying 20,000 gallons of water on the run to make it smoother and faster, Brakeman Bill Casey and his U.S. fellow crewmen adjusted their helmets and inspected their 507-lb. sled. The driver was ruddy-cheeked Stan Benham, chief of the Lake Placid fire department, who turned to bobsledding four years ago because he found ski-jumping too tame. When Benham said, "All right, let's go boys," all four took their positions for the push-off. Once in motion, with feet planted in stirrups and hands clutching straps, they...
...locomotive, an ancient coach and a string of spavined baggage cars. But since nothing else runs on the 78 miles of grass-grown single track which wobbles its way between the two towns, the 9:35 is well known on the Eastern Shore. So is the 9:35-8 brakeman, Fred Warrington, of Harrington, who has worked for the Pennsy for 33 years. Last week Warrington's differences with . the Government made news of a sort...
...George Martin Dewey, one of the founders of the G.O.P. in Michigan; a fifth cousin of Admiral George Dewey. Educated: Owosso grade and high schools, University of Michigan (1923), Columbia University Law School (1925). Married: in 1928, to Frances Eileen Hutt of Sapulpa, Okla., daughter of a railroad brakeman, a onetime singer in a road company of George White's Scandals. Children: Thomas Jr., 15; John, 12. Church: Episcopalian. Nickname...