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That single private car in use two decades ago was the Virginia City, a Pullman redecorated in the 1950s to the specifications of cafe society Chronicler Lucius Beebe and his friend Charles Clegg, members of the crushed- velvet school of design. The rococo trappings, now somewhat tattered, include gold-colored silk curtains, an oil painting on the ceiling copied from the Sistine Chapel and a white Venetian marble fireplace. Passengers who wish to slosh champagne on the open rear platform and watch the world whiz by can do so for a trifling $2,000 a day (drinks included...
...going to play, however, why not do things in a big way? In 1973 Entrepreneur Roy Thorpe, 50, from Fort Lauderdale, was talked into taking a steam locomotive excursion from Hoboken, N.J., to Binghamton, N.Y. Hitched to the train was the Clover Colony, a perfectly restored Pullman. Thorpe had a couple of whiskey sours while watching the Delaware Water Gap recede from the car's veranda. "It was a soul-stirring sight," he says. The next year he bought the Hampton Roads, a car with two staterooms, observation room, kitchen pantry and crew's quarters. He sold it last year...
Michael Jackson's free throw with eight seconds to go gave second-ranked Georgetown a 37-36 victory over upset-minded Southern Methodist University yesterday in the second round of the NCAA West Regional basketball tournament in Pullman, Wash...
Reserves Ed Catchings and Eric Booker scored 18 points each as 13th-ranked NevadaLas Vegas overpowered Princeton, 68-56, last night in the opening game of the NCAA West Regional in Pullman, Wash, to set up a show-down against ninth-ranked Texas-El Paso...
Fortunately, she started out with sophisticated and very tough audiences. Born in Memphis, where her mother was a maid in a whorehouse and her father a Pullman porter, she always knew she wanted to sing. When Alberta was still a child, she ran away to Chicago, where, she had heard, singers could make $10 a week. She was helped by a friend of the family and, after making a pest of herself, was finally given a chance to sing at Dago Frank's, a saloon where prostitutes and pimps hung...