Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Province of Birobidzhan on the northern border of Manchuria. Founded with great fanfare in 1934 as "an empty plot on which the Soviet Jews were to pioneer without getting mixed up with Zionism," Birobidzhan is today, as Frankel describes it, a sad little whistle stop on the Trans-Siberian Railroad that "jet planes, hope, energy and momentum pass...
...Actress Cornell the road is as much a magnet as when she ran a record 18,000-mile marathon of 77 cities with a repertory including Romeo and Juliet in 1933. "The road isn't what it used to be," she concedes. "You can't get private railroad cars, and there aren't any trains any more." But Cornell despises television, has never made a movie, and finds it increasingly hard to find a Broadway script that suits her. "So there I am, off again, carrying my bottled water." Shrugs Aherne: "She's wedded...
...shareholders of the Alleghany Corp. holding company last week went proxy statements nominating Anita O'Keeffe Young,* sixtyish widow of Railroad Tycoon Robert R. Young, tp the Alleghany board. Mrs. Young, who is sure to be elected, has a heavy personal stake in the holding company once run by her husband. Counting Alleghany securities she owned before his death and what she inherited, her investment in the company is now worth around $9,000,000, second only to the $11 million interest of Alleghany Chairman and President Allan Kirby. Mrs. Young was long a silent partner in her husband...
...Hope farce that is actually funny, and sometimes downright hilarious. Comic Hope is cast as "the world's worst insurance agent," a 19th century nincompoop who caps his career by writing a $100,000 insurance policy for a man who avers that he is "well known in railroad and banking circles." Only later does Hope realize that he has insured the life of the nation's No. 1 public enemy: Jesse James (Wendell Corey...
...already he was growing unhappy with Cambridge. The weather no longer depressed him, for that had improved, but something that he could not pin down bothered him, something about the atmosphere of the University itself. Looking ahead of him, Vag could see his future stretching like a straight railroad track, the parallel rails appearing to come closer together as they ran across his mental landscape...