Word: normalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unaccountably, It Rolled. Everything seemed normal as Engineer Lloyd F. Wilburn, 63, pulled out of Elizabethport at 9:57, right on schedule, with a wave to Towerman Joe Halliday, and headed east toward Newark Bay and the Jersey Central's 1.4-mile, four-track trestle and drawbridge...
...everything was not normal. Unaccountably, at a speed of 30 m.p.h. or more, No. 3314 rolled on through three successive signal lights-three clear warnings that a 300-ft. drawbridge span was open. Then, just short of gaping space, the train was derailed by an automatic safety device, bumped along the ties and plunged 40 ft. down...
...bright, seemingly healthy child, Susan had never been sick. Yet for the Singer family of Bellingham, Wash., this tragedy a fortnight ago was not entirely unexpected. Susan was the third Singer child in five years to die, without warning, in the same way. In 1953 there was Barbara, a normal, vivacious girl of nearly ten. She was on her way to school when a neighbor saw her rise on her toes, stretch her arms and drop to the sidewalk, dead. In 1956 there was Billy, a strong, spirited boy of two. He was heard to sigh in bed one night...
...pediatrician found a slightly enlarged heart. It was not unusual, nor was the small heart murmur that another doctor found in Billy in infancy. Susan was also thought to have a minor heart enlargement, but all the children were healthy, energetic specimens. Their hearts seemed near normal, at least, and they suffered no undue strain or emotional upset. Their X rays and cardiograms were all "nonspecific...
Though a second Cassini daughter, Christina, was born normal in 1948, Gene's agony over the first child left a deep scar. "That was my war effort," she says...