Word: brakeman
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...recorded a year ago (in Columbia's hillbilly catalogue) by Wills and his Texas Playboys. It was a seller long before Tin Pan Alley heard it. For Texas has boomed mightily as a source and an outlet for popular music. The late guitar-toting Jimmie Rodgers, onetime brakeman on the Southern Railway, helped start the boom, on Victor hillbilly records a dozen years ago. Now Victor's Bill Boyd, Columbia's Gene Autry, Bob Wills, Bonnie Blue Eyes and Patsy Montana sing to the nation the songs that Texas makes. And the Kapp brothers, who run Decca...
...Goldendale, Wash., Brakeman Ed Barnard invited a hobo riding atop his freight train to join him in his warm caboose. "No thanks," replied the hobo. "I've got my radio rigged up here. It won't work inside...
...Married Adventure. Osa Leighty was a small-town Kansas girl, the spunky, snub-nosed daughter of a brakeman on the Santa Fe. At 16 she met a lanky young candid-camera bug named Martin Johnson, from the neighboring town of Independence. Lately famed as crew member on Jack London's cruise of the Snark, he was part owner of two nickelodeons-Snark No. 1 and No. 2. In darkened Snark No. 1 he abruptly proposed marriage. A few months later Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson started a vaudeville lecture tour, saved enough to head for the South Sea cannibal islands...
...driver is not the whole works on a four-man bobsled team. There is a brakeman (to bob, check skids and bring the sled to a stop at the run's end) and two men sandwiched between brakeman and driver (for ballast as well as bobbing...
...droves, Buzz wears a slick cowboy outfit and so do Claude and Esther. His roustabouts wear natty, filling-station-style uniforms with cowboy hats, clown around on bucking steers between sales. Buzz himself is no mail-order Westerner. Colorado-born, he worked for a spell as a brakeman on Spencer Penrose's Pike's Peak cog road. As a prelude to his success story, he tells the curious: "I'm no relation to the ex-President, the G-Man or the vacuum cleaner...