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...scooted by and puffed smoke in my face. Tooted whistle and disappeared into tunnel. Came out half a block away and dashed over bridge above the 20th Century Limited that was rounding the bend below. Signals blinked, tracks switched, water tower bubbled, and Limited pulled up to station. Little cart wheels out. On other track, 19th Century Limited whips by. Forgets to stop for log loader which spills logs onto track. Old 19th backs up. Little man at control panel in corner narrowly averts tragedy by switching Old 19th onto another track. The 20th starts up. Goes at full gallup...
Upset Apple Cart. Wallace, as his wife says, "likes to upset the apple cart." He periodically rejiggers the masthead, rearranging the Rovers' names according to their performance. He does not like too many hard & fast rules, and he does like to keep everybody guessing...
...called Pag-asa (Tagalog for hope), he toured the islands, dropping in unannounced on one army outpost after another; in regions Pag-asa could not reach, he traveled by car or carabao cart. He gave the soldiers better food, better quarters, promise of advancement. At one post he went out with a patrol to do a little Huk-shooting himself, and handed a battlefield commission to a sergeant who bagged three. At another post he found soldiers sleeping without blankets...
When it was found that a Shrine circus (some seals, horses, dogs and elephants) was bedded down in the New Orleans auditorium where Margaret Truman was scheduled to sing, the order was given to cart them off to a parking lot for the night. Reason: Miss Truman is allergic to animals. Next day in Mobile, Ala., her concert manager set the record straight. Miss Truman loves animals, he said, and she is not allergic to them. It was all the fault of the Secret Service men who "made up the allergy angle to have the animals kept away from...
...main route that are a claustrophobe's nightmare. The first is crossing Massachusetts Avenue on the way to the Houses. The tunnel height suddenly becomes three feet thanks to the shallowness of the Rapid Transit below; the traveler must hoist himself up a ladder and onto a rickety wooden cart, pulling himself across by a rope. Below rumbles the Rapid Transit, and above, the Massachusetts Avenue traffic...