Word: franke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, the Star has been the two-family business of the Kauffmann and Noyes families. The recent deaths of 85-year-old Frank Noyes (TIME, Dec. 13) and 75-year-old Fleming Newbold, his brother-in-law, less than two months apart, marked the end of the old regime on the Star. Last week Kauffmann, four other new officers and two new directors* ushered in the new regime. Six of the seven were named Kauffmann or Noyes; all were descendants of the first Samuel Hay Kauffmann or the first Crosby Stuart Noyes, who took over the Star...
Other railroaders call Budd "the presidents' president" because such big wheels as the Rock Island's President John Farrington, Santa Fe's President Fred Gurley and the Great Northern's President Frank Gavin are Budd-trained men. Soon a protegé will succeed him. Next August, Ralph Budd will be 70 - and the Burlington has an inflexible rule that its men must retire at that age. Budd has no intention of breaking the rule: he made...
...wholesome passion of a clean-cut Ladd (Alan) for a Good Woman (Brenda Marshall). The complicating fact is that Brenda is married to Alan's old friend (Robert Preston). But Preston develops a taste for too much liquor, too many women and two evil companions (Donald Crisp and Frank Faylen...
Since Ladd is a company policeman in the days when roadbeds were rough and railroading rougher, Preston winds up on the villains' or losing side. There are some handsomely photographed train wrecks, but except for Frank Faylen's lynx-eyed portrait of a killer, Whispering Smith is a conventional western in every detail. Its only novelty: Actor Ladd, familiar as a sleekly tough urban type, carrying two guns and looking pretty uncomfortable as they flap around his chaps...
...Based on Frank H. Spearman's bestselling novel of 1906, which has been filmed twice before (1915 and 1926), provided material for a 1925 movie serial called Whispering Smith Rides...