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...Open Road. "Reverend Mike" has set the maximum enrollment at 30-"a busload." Whenever masters and boys feel the itch, the school piles into its bus, with one of the masters at the wheel, and goes singing on its way. Studying the plays of Shaw and the poems of T. S. Eliot, they have driven down to Boston to see Man and Superman and hear Eliot lecture at Harvard. To study farming, and to earn a little spending money for other trips, they will bus to Aroostook County this fall to help with the potato harvest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: School on Wheels | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...week began, the Chicago South Shore and South Bend's westbound No. 26 ploughed into a busload of section hands at the Andry crossing, 20 miles from South Bend, killing 13, injuring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Bad Weekend | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

Strip Tease. In Red Bank, N.J., a busload of soldiers heard a female voice ask the driver, "Will you wait a minute, please, while I get my clothes on?", twisted their necks out of joint, saw a laundress lift aboard a load of linen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 1, 1945 | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

...rebels, wants to make a sociological epic named Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? Sullivan, outfitted as a tramp, goes on the bum to find out about life. His bosses, who came from that side of life, know all about it and want no reminders, have him tailed by a busload of studio publicists-just in case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 9, 1942 | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

Rollerman Solt, who has ten children of his own, from six months to 15 years, said later: "I stood on the brake. ... I could have jumped off if it hadn't been for all those cars and children. . . . The roller was headed for a busload of school kids coming up the hill. I thought of my ten. I wondered how they would look after that roller passed over them-and I knew then I wasn't going to jump. I couldn't see how I was going to get through that mess of cars and children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: I Thought of My Ten | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

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