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...that "A hog can cross the country without changing trains-but you can't!" had forced the railroads to start the first through transcontinental service. He had sounded off about a lot of things that people had been putting up with and not liking-the block-selling of Pullman space (by which big companies often tied up space they did not use), old-fashioned sleeping cars ("rolling tenements"). He had pulled his roads out of the venerable Association of American Railroads ("that broken-down lobby") and this month will set up his own railroad association...
...these defiant trumpet blasts he had established himself firmly as the champion of the people against what he loved to call the "banker-dominated railroads." The Department of Justice, blessing his efforts, had asked the Supreme Court to take away the Pullman Co. from 35 railroads which wanted to operate it, and turn it over to Bob Young...
...earnest evening, Jennie Tourel finally let the lowbrows in the audience have Songs My Mother Taught Me, My Hero (from The Chocolate Soldier), and a piece of heavy whimsy by Leonard Bernstein, called I Hate Music. Two nights later she sang in the little college town of Pullman, Wash., and half the town turned out to hear...
...grew up, gradually stopped worrying about who his parents were. He married, had four sons of his own, finally became a grandfather. At 58 he was a mild, grey-haired, paunchy, average man. He wore steel-rimmed spectacles, had an average job (employment manager for a branch of the Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Co.), lived in an average frame house in an average Worcester, Mass, neighborhood...
Efrem Kurtz was born in Russia, but after Pullman-jumping back & forth across the U.S. for nine years, as musical director of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, he is accustomed to U.S. audiences. He believes in educating his listeners gradually. Says he: ''I exposed them, step by step, to better music than Strauss waltzes and Tchaikovsky. So we have gone from Victor Herbert to Aaron Copland, from Rachmaninoff to Shostakovich." He is one of the most relaxed conductors in the business, but believes that the waving of his long spidery arms helps both the orchestra and audience...