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...bound for Munich. It was 13 minutes late-not too bad for the holiday season and a Saturday night. But up in the electric locomotive, Engineer Oskar Sauerbrey gave it a lot of thought. He throttled her up. "I think we are going too fast," yelled Fireman Karl Rupp. Engineer Oskar simply opened the throttle some more-to 60 m.p.h. (the permitted limit), to 70, 80, 84. Back in the diner, cups and saucers crashed from cupboards, and in the compartments, people locked arms to keep from smashing against the walls. Women fainted in the aisles. A doctor was knocked...
...stationmaster was so right. Last week, before a Bavarian judge, Oskar and his fireman admitted that before boarding D-961 they had each downed five pints of strong Austrian beer and three Stamperln of liqueur. When the judge asked how big a Stamperl is, Oskar sheepishly pulled a liqueur glass from his pocket. For their wild night, the injuries to eleven of the 720 passengers, and the damages to six railway cars, the judge gave Oskar 18 months in prison and his fireman a year...
Months before Dori joined the family, Dameron, a city fireman in nearby Washington, D.C., had applied for a boy from Maryland's Montgomery County Social Service League. Then last week the Damerons themselves got a surprise. The agency's answer was no. Reason: Dori, now 2½, has an exceptionally high IQ-147 ("very superior"); to bring a child of average mentality into the family, said the league, would cause hardship for Dori as well as for the baby, whose IQ might be lower...
Died. Sim T. Webb, 83, fireman for Engineer Casey Jones on his fabled (Around the curve and down the dump/ Two locomotives was a bound to jump) last run on the Illinois Central (April 30, 1900), who leaped clear on Casey's orders just before they rammed a stalled freight near Vaughn, Miss.; in Memphis...
Cincinnati's hitting is superior to that of any other team in the league, but it lacks pitching, which is Milwaukee's strong point. Brooks Lawrence stands out as the bellwether of the staff, with Hersh Freeman in an ace role as fireman. The Redlegs will miss the hitting of Ted Kluzewski, sidelined with a slipped disc, but the addition of Don Hoak to such sluggers as Wally Post, Gus Bell, Frank Robinson, and Ed Bailey give Cincinnati an attack which goes a long way toward making up for its pitching deficiencies...