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Into the depot at Aurora, Ill. last week glided a diesel locomotive with two spanking new streamlined, bubble-domed coaches. Out of one stepped Ralph Budd, 69, the highballing president of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, who had done more than any other railroader to make such dream trains a reality...
...Ralph Budd had come to Aurora, the "Q's" birthplace, to celebrate the road's first 100 years. He donned a claw hammer coat and stovepipe hat, glued on a black mustache, and helped re-enact the granting of the Q's 1849 charter for its first twelve miles of track. But Budd, whose 10,600-mile railroad system is now the U.S.'s fourth longest,* had his eye, as usual, on the future...
Countess Kristina, who is the heroine of the first half of the book, becomes Emperor Karl's secret agent in World War I; her scurryings around in Parisian underthings, waving secret documents, make Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd look like a timid traveler in an old suit of B.V.D.s. When Kristina collapses into the arms of Spain's Alfonso XIII, her sister, Countess Zia, takes over for the between-wars decades. When at last, after more than 700 pages, Hitler and the Russians start divvying up what's left of the Dukay world, many a reader...
...fall and winter of the first year, they attacked Harry Bridges, Frances Perkins, Frank Murphy (then governor of Michigan), Harold Ickes, and other notables. Father Coughlin, Gerald L. K. Smith, and patriots of that kidney were somehow unnoticed. George Sylvester Viereck, who was chummier with Hitler than Lanny Budd, skipped away without any damage whatsoever...
...Emancipated Spirits. But the greater accomplishment of the Lanny Budd novels is their evocation of the intellectual world in which the New Deal had its being. It is a world divided into good people-writers, painters, musicians, Socialists, New Dealers, honest workingmen, heroic underground warriors, and emancipated spirits generally-and bad people, such as moneygrubbers, gigolos, anti-Semites, businessmen (with exceptions), and of course Fascists and their sympathizers...