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McCarthy the Orator. Too pressed for time to finish his testimony, McCarthy hopped into a plane and headed for Santa Fe to address a gathering of 17 Republican state chairmen from the Rocky Mountain and Midwestern states. This also got him out of town as a Rules subcommittee opened hearings on the resolution of Connecticut's Senator William Benton demanding his expulsion from the Senate...
...circus ended. Said Jack's colleague Ralph Heintz: "It is time we faced facts. The free benefits we formerly received were paid for by Uncle Sam." Bill Jack sold out for $8,000,000 and went out to Rancho Santa Fe, Calif, to take it easy. By 1949, idleness chafed him. In Solana Beach, Calif., he organized the Bill Jack Scientific Instrument Co. to make a new kind of aerial reconnaissance camera, rounded up some new "associates" and began dreaming big dreams. Last week it looked as if Bill Jack was ready to hop into the public...
...collision, the supercolossal climax of Paramount's old-time rail saga called The Denver and Rio Grande. The D. & R.G. itself donated the equipment, due for scrapping. Producer Nat Holt staged the wreck as a fictional incident of the railroad's struggle with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe some 70 years ago, to push the first railway track through Colorado's Royal Gorge. Producer Holt had only one misgiving about his $165,000 real thing: "It looks so good, people will probably think it was staged with miniatures...
...Kansans call the Kaw. Its waters rolled into Manhattan (pop. 18,996) in raging flood, and businessmen along the main streets had to be taken out in boats. More than 20,000 people were driven from their homes in Topeka, the state capital. Flood water spilled over the Santa Fe railroad tracks near Emporia and for 55 hours stranded 337 passengers in the crack passenger train El Capitan. Rancher Bill Brandt landed his small plane on a nearby highway 15 times to bring in supplies and to take out five sick passengers...
...River at the Kansas Cities. There the low-lying industrial districts are protected by flood walls as high as 22 feet, built to cope with high water equal to that of the previous record flood in 1903. The flood of '51 roared over the levees, covered the Santa Fe's great transfer yards and shops, inundated the spreading stockyards, coursed through factories. Rescue workers had a hard time convincing some oldtime residents to leave, so sure were they that the flood would be no worse than in 1903. Mrs. Emile LaBorde, who had lived there 32 years, baked...