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...brakes somehow released, the locomotive backed into a string of cars and with reverse lever swung forward by the impact, reversed its direction. Passing its appalled engineer and fireman it swung out on to the main line, picked up a grain car ahead of it and disappeared into the mist. Up the main line at 50 m.p.h. whipped No. 34, Great Western's night Omaha-Minneapolis passenger train. Four miles south of Tennant with its headlight shrouded by the grain car the runaway crashed into No. 34 headon. Like berry boxes both engines cracked open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Rare Runaway | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...known military figures. These portraits are much more than more recitals of the chief events in the men's lives. They rather attempt to evaluate the influence of their previous experiences on the events in which these soldiers took a leading part. Captain Hart attempts to pierce the enveloping mist of popular applause and adulation to present the war leaders as they really were. With an almost too brutal frankness are exposed the stupidity of Joffre in failing to provide adequate defenses at Verdun, and the incredible obstinacy of General Pershing in insisting that the United States Army fight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 2/15/1939 | See Source »

...gust shook one of the curious triangles from its perch and scattered its particles into the dark, spreading a mist of snow across the lower panes. Then the flakes fell into step again and circled past his eyes as they had before. A big flake flew out of nowhere at the pane near his hand and violently flattened itself against the transparency. It held on desperately, its edges vanishing. Then suddenly it loosened its grip on the smooth surface and catapulted down along a stream of its own moisture. And more, smaller flakes blew out of the night and hung...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/3/1939 | See Source »

Candlelight (Bunny Berigan; Victor). Hitherto unrecorded Bix Beiderbecke com position, originally written for piano, played by Trumpeter Berigan and a small band. Also available are four other new recordings of Beiderbecke numbers (Flashes, In a Mist, In the Dark, Davenport Blues) by the same combination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: POPULAR | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Sailors have long called St. Paul "the cursed island." As a barren rock in the antarctic fringe of the bleak South Indian Ocean, 2,000 miles from Africa, India and Australia, French-owned St. Paul is seldom free from either mist or mystery, and last week both fell thicker than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Dutchman's Mistakes | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

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