Word: midlands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joseph Henry Harley had traveled thousands of miles in his 32 years with the London, Midland & Scottish Railway, but he never left the bustling gloom of the Crewe railway yard near Liverpool. He was just a cog in its sprawling machine, driving a dumpy, asthmatic shunting engine back & forth, day after day. He never married, he never made many friends, he never talked much. He just watched the majestic trains passing him from places he had never seen, bound for places he would never know...
True Confession. In Bristol, England, the Midland Bank got a chewed-up letter, on its envelope a faintly apologetic note from the postoffice: "Eaten by snails in the letter...
...Midland Park, N.J., Pfc. Wilson Ackerman's parents got a letter from their son, with some news and a request: he had landed with the 6th Marine Division on a Pacific island named Okinawa; if the newspapers carried anything about it, would they send him the clipping...
...Biggest cinemiscarriage was Pin-Up Girl (20th Century-Fox), which Betty Grable made during the early stages of pregnancy. Cinemactress Grable plays the toast of a midland chapter of the U.S.O., becomes so amiable a Pin-Up Girl that half the war effort thinks it is engaged to her. Later in Manhattan and Washington she meets a heroic sailor (John Harvey), takes his advances seriously, whiles the reels away with deceptions, misunderstandings, quarrels, songs & dances. Typical number: Martha Raye sings Red Robins, Bob-whites and Bluebirds, while a lot of girls rhythmically wag the red, white & blue rear ends...
...First Lady. It is gratifying to receive never fewer than 1,000 fan letters a week even if so many of them are from middle-aged lawyers, bankers and clergymen. It is perhaps even more gratifying to learn that one class of the Army Air Forces Bombardier School at Midland, Texas, has voted you "the girl we would most like to be alone with in the nose of an AT-II." It is most harmlessly gratifying of all to realize that, though there is no extant Garson cheesecake (except the sporran shots from Random Harvest), you get nearly as many...