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Here's to Stuart Pullman Cooke...
...delightful anecdotla, let it here be noted that on the trip to West Point (a Journey on which Julian wanted every photographer from every Boston paper to see the club off--by the way, he's obsessed by pictures), he hustled the entire team off to sleep in cozy Pullman berths, only to discover the tickets called for coach reservations. And his adherence to the Chesterfield-carnation tradition, a regalla sported at every Crimson rink contest by manager and coach, is only too familiar to Harvard hockey enthusiasts. Julian was more than slightly perturbed when Coach Johnny Chase appeared...
...button-cute, doll-sized Brazilian Soprano Bido Sayao were the concertgoers of Macon, Ga. Day before the diva's scheduled appearance came a cancellation from her manager: "Reason is, she didn't like the travel accommodations. . . She said she positively would not travel in ordinary Pullman accommodations with the train full of soldiers. . . . I was powerless to persuade...
Groaned Rector: "Let's get going." In the wardroom, about the size of a Pullman drawing room, Rector stretched out on the table beneath a floodlight ordinarily used for loading. The pharmacist's mate and assisting officers pulled on reversed pajama tops, masked their faces with gauze. From end to end the submarine, riding deep under the surface, was tense. Men stood by the diving planes to keep her steady. In the galley the cook kept water boiling in his kettles for sterilizing...
...that they are making more money than they ever dared hope to make on passenger service. They know that the local accommodation business is lost forever to busses and automobiles, and they are glad to lose it. They expect airplanes to take away most of the long-distance Pullman travel. But they figure they can make big money on fast, low-cost, long-distance coach travel...