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...foster home, joined the Navy at 17, later quit college to become a newspaper reporter in Alaska and the state of Washington. In 1957 Painter married a fellow Anchorage reporter, Jeanne Bannister, despite Jeanne's parents' disapproval, and the couple lived and wrote together happily in Pullman, Wash. One day in 1962, while Painter stayed home tending Mark, his wife drove their daughter to nursery school; the car skidded on an icy road and Jeanne and the little girl were killed in a head-on crash...
...life may be the solution for all the ills of a fretful and feverish world," remained wedded only to elegance, which he took to be his taste in dress (top hat and morning suit), food (champagne and pate), railroads (which he glorified in books and in his private Pullman), and cafe society, whose doings he reported, first for the New York Herald Tribune and later for the San Francisco Chronicle; of a heart attack; in San Mateo, Calif...
...such unusual amenities as free champagne and dinner by candlelight. Each train has television, a telephone, and a recreation car run by an airline-style hostess who models resort wear, leads games and shows movies. The Pennsylvania Railroad last month began a low-key advertising campaign for its all-Pullman Broadway Limited between New York and Chicago, which now averages only 85 passengers per trip. Sample: "The Broadway Limited isn't a Wingjet, a Jumpjet, a Speedjet, or a Jetjet. It's called a train." The Pennsy recently added sherry with dinner, delivers newspapers to each room, offers...
...patented a design for a railroad sleeping car (consisting of a series of stateroomlike compartments) and sailed for Europe. There he leased his cars to rail lines in half a dozen countries. Eleven years later he returned to the U.S., several times a millionaire, to compete with George Pullman for the American market. Pull man won, and Mann went bankrupt. But not for long. By 1891 he had acquired full control of Town Topics from his young brother Eugene...
Disaster, Disaster. Wagons-Lits feels the need of diversification more strongly than most companies: it has proved particularly vulnerable to wars, expropriations, deflations and other disasters. Founded in 1876 by a Belgian engineer who had admired the pioneering Pullman cars on a visit to the U.S., Wagons-Lits introduced sleeping and dining cars to Europe, devised Europe's first truly through-train railroad system. World War I flattened the company, and it was just recovering when the Bolsheviks grabbed 600 of its cars in Russia. It prospered in the '20s and '30s, then in World...