Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Names make news. Last week these names made this news: Miami Judge Vincent O. Giblin finally decided what to do about the separation suit slapped on Fur Trader (four generations removed) John Jacob Astor III, 42, by his baby-faced third wife, Dolores ("Dolly") Pullman Astor, 26. Dolly, holding out for the standard $500,000 plum (the same amount Astor gave his first wife, and for which he is now being sued by his second), had offered hours of testimony to prove that J. J. was worse than a beast when aroused. Having characterized the testimony as' "the most...
...stock broker's quotation board, tells both customer and ticket agent what space is available for a one-week period on as many as 23 different trains. Then a special card, representing the passenger's choice of space, is passed through an electronic scanner that prints the Pullman ticket automatically. Elapsed time: two minutes. To accommodate customers ordering reservations from other locations, Pennsy has a photoelectric wire system connecting 30th Street with other ticket offices in Philadelphia and Wilmington. When the scanner prints the ticket, Western Union's "Ticketfax" sends out a facsimile to the point...
...lightweight passenger train will be ordered soon, if the committee of Eastern railroad presidents formed to investigate its possibilities (TIME, July 12) does not come up with a mass order for such a train. Young added that General Motors will have a new train "on the rails by July, Pullman shortly thereafter, and A.C.F. soon after that...
...From Pullman, Mich.: "Dear Senator: Would you please do our country a big favor and drop dead? McCarthy is an American. What...
...that their Mexican divorce of last July was no good. This cleared the way for a Manhattan judge to hand Gertrude an easygoing stipend from Astor's easy-come $70 million-$2,500 a month, plus $7,500 for lawyers' fees. It also marooned Dolores ("Dolly") Pullman Astor, 26, very blonde Miami Beach divorcee who married Astor in August, ditched him in September, sued him last month for support money. Dolly, who had guilelessly fancied herself No. 3, was left, according to the court, still a lonely grass widow, never legally married to Astor and apparently powerless...