Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short, squat bridge perches across a shallow gully at Lo Wu, where Red China and British Hong Kong meet. Railroad tracks as well as a footpath stretch across the bridge, but until last week, no passenger had ridden across since 1949. The thousands of Chinese refugees, European missionaries and businessmen who have crossed the bridge with their wives and children since then have been forced to walk, or more frequently, to limp along the footpath bearing on their weary backs or in their hands those few possessions they were able to wrench from the Communist grasp...
...sufficient air, bombardment, fighters, reconnaissance, that I could have taken out all those supplies, those airdromes on the other side of the Yalu; I could have bombed the devils between there and Mukden, stopped that railroad operating, and the people that were there fighting could not have been supplied. But we weren't permitted to do it. You get in a war to win it; you do not get into a war to lose it. And we were required to lose it. General Van Fleet had them on the run and he could have taken them and he wasn...
...plane from Hollywood at New York's International Airport and into the open arms and bashful buss of Crooner Eddie (I Need You Now) Fisher, 26. The combination of wholesome young love and two stirring success stories was a nation's delight. Daughter of a railroad carpenter, Debbie got into movies in 1948 when a talent scout spotted her wearing a holey bathing suit in a Burbank (Calif.) beauty contest (her family couldn't afford new clothes for her). She not only attained a ripe age (for Hollywood) without marrying anybody, but, so far as anyone knew...
...invented a speedwriting system called Rowe Vowel Shorthand and opened a business school in Michigan. When this venture also failed, the family moved to San Francisco and Guy got a job peddling newspapers. After the 1906 earthquake, the Rowes headed for Detroit, where Guy went to work in the railroad station smashing baggage at $2 a week...
Toil & Trouble. In Manhattan, Author Meets the Critics-minus one critic-came on the air for a discussion of William Faulkner's A Fable. Author Frank (Five Gentlemen of Japan) Gibney arrived ten minutes late, breathing hard and blaming the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. Gibney's first comment was that he thought most readers would have difficulty understanding A Fable. In reply, Critic Irving Howe took a surprising potshot at his own publisher. Random House President Bennett Cerf, who also doubles as a humorist and a panelist on What's My Line? Noting that Publisher...