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...long screened-in porch facing the mountains of the Sandwich Range, he and Mrs. Cummings take their meals. There is no electricity, and at night reading is done by kerosene lamplight. For trips to the village he drives a 1929 Ford sedan, upholstered and roomy as an old-fashioned Pullman, that rides high over the rutted dirt roads...
...leave the job to a professional, but Spock is a fussy man, and he felt he knew best what mothers would be looking for. So on the hot, week-long troop-train ride from New York to San Francisco, while a beer party flowed at one end of his Pullman and a petty officer noisily snored in the seat opposite, Lieut. Commander Spock patiently indexed away, his lap lost under galley proofs and long sheets which slowly filled up with 1,500 entries like "Bottle feeding-bubbling," and "Bedtime-keeping it happy." Part of Spock's drive stems, perhaps...
...trailers, heard about the boy wonder and hired him as president in 1949. In a year and a half, Bunker streamlined Trailmobile's sales, services and production, doubled sales to $52 million and increased the net more than tenfold to $3,000,000. After Trailmobile was sold to Pullman, Inc., for $41.5 million, President Bunker got the call from Glenn Martin...
Died. Stephen T. (for Tyree) Early, 61, White House press secretary for Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, later vice president of Pullman Inc.; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. A onetime Associated Press reporter, he first met Roosevelt while covering the Navy Department before World War I, became his advance man when F.D.R. campaigned unsuccessfully for the vice-presidency in 1920. In 1932, 24 hours after he was elected to the White House, Roosevelt telephoned to his old friend, asked him to take the job of press secretary, which Early accepted on a two-year basis, held...
...freshman botany student knows, all of these reported events are biologically impossible, since they imply that trees grow from the bottom. Trees, contrary to popular opinion, grow from the ends of the branches and of the main trunk . . . H. E. BREWER Pullman, Wash...