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Trouble on the Rails. It had hardly begun before it caused a railroad wreck. The second section of the Missouri Pacific Railroad's Missourian crashed into the rear of the first section, which was running slowly in heavy snow near Syracuse, Mo. Fourteen people were killed, among them Alexander Wilbourne Weddell, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Argentina and Spain, and his wife. Forty-four were injured...
...strength of the film lies in its objectivity. Passing no judgment on twelve-year-old Giuseppe or his fourteen-year-old friend Pasquale, it traces their development from urchins who cry, "Hey, shoeshine, Joe?" at the passing GIs, through the days when they become hardened inmates of a juvenile cell-block where they have been sentenced for black-market sales...
Then the fighting took an ominous turn. Soldiers of the Trans-Jordan Arab Legion, who have been expected to keep peace in Arab districts, fought with a convoy of Jewish vehicles which passed their camp. Fourteen more Jews died. Palestine was being in effect partitioned, in a way not planned by U.N., as armed forces on both sides dug in at fortified positions...
...bizarre present that found favor in 1946 was a sequence of fourteen sonnets lettered in Old English, and illuminated, on a sheet of parchment. What gave a fillip to the toil that went into the manufacture of the gift was the fact that each sonnet described an outing or incident the Middlebury giver had shared with the Harvard recipient...
...Forest City, Iowa, Furniture Dealer John Hanson dramatized the U.S. farmer's prosperity in a new way. He scrubbed the dollar signs off his price tags, substituted a figure in hog-pounds. When one of his customers came in with a load of fourteen 220-lb. hogs, Dealer Hanson did a little quick figuring. At 1941 prices, he pointed out, the hogs would have bought one 9-cu. ft. refrigerator. Last week the customer got not only the refrigerator, but an electric range, an automatic toaster-and $20 in change...