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...used as coaches. The Pennsylvania alone will handle more than 300 special trains, will detrain some 50,000 men at Manhattan, has appealed to their mothers and sweethearts not to stand around in the already crowded station. Longest haul: a three-train caravan from California's Fort Ord via Southern Pacific to Chicago. Lightest bottleneck: the two-track Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac, which is the only link between three Southern roads at Richmond and the Northern roads at Washington. Shuttling more than 150 loaded specials to the already crowded Washington gateway in four days, R.F. & P. train crews will earn...
...Fort Ord, Calif...
Pianist Yaltah Menuhin, 20, Violinist Yehudi's youngest sister, eloped to Reno from her parents' home in Los Gatos, Calif., with Private Benjamin Rolfe, 27. Yaltah, who divorced Attorney William Stix last year, soon parted with her groom who returned to Fort Ord to be tossed into the guardhouse for going AWOL. Papa Menuhin withheld his blessing, explained: "It will take time to swallow and digest the news." Private Rolfe, unabashed and "utterly unmusical," declared: "There is enough musical genius in that family already...
...Flop. At Fort Ord, Calif., 1,500 new inflammable hand grenades were rejected. The glass containers were shatterproof...
...Lugging a key to the city with enormous modesty, Private Bushface toured the town with pretty girls, was honor guest at dinner, a dance and a rodeo. Toward midnight the garlands were dead and he prepared to depart. Said he to Chamber of Commerce Manager Paul Ord: "I might come again some time...