Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Denver & Rio Grande (Nat Holt; Paramount) pits two rival railroads of the 1870s against each other. The Denver & Rio Grande is represented by tough, honest Edmond O'Brien, and the Canyon City & San Juan is represented by tough, dishonest Sterling Hayden. After payroll holdups, gun battles, a landslide, dynamiting and a head-on train collision, right triumphs, and the Rio Grande comes through on schedule. The Denver & Rio Grande chugs through impressive Technicolor Rocky Mountain scenery, mostly at a slow-freight pace. Among the characters mouthing wooden dialogue in this little iron-horse opera: Dean Jagger and J. Carrol...
...Beat. Averell Harriman is the only candidate in history to arrive on the sidewalks of New York via a lifetime of private railroad cars, first-class steamships, private airplanes and chauffeur-driven limousines. He is worth some $40 million and owner of homes in Manhattan, Long Island, the Hudson Valley, Hobe Sound (Fla.), Sun Valley and Paris. But he is possessed with a patrician's best instinct for public service, decency and generosity. As adviser, errand boy and global troubleshooter for Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, he has always been selfless, tireless-and available. When he was sworn...
Graduate Vice President. Harriman was raised on the 20,000-acre family estate at Arden, N.Y., built by old E. H. Harriman's Union Pacific Railroad profits and other phenomenally successful Wall Street ventures. Averell was a senior at Yale when he was elected to U.P.'s board of directors, and he graduated ('13) into a vice-presidency of the railroad. He was studious in his business dealings, invested carefully in shipping, commercial aviation and investment banking (Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.). In 1928-irritated by Republican high-tariff policy-he turned Democrat and began the first...
When Dick was six, his father put the name of Russell on Georgia's map by incorporating a settlement a mile and a half east of Winder. It became a flag stop on the Seaboard Air Line Railroad's Atlanta line, so father Russell could commute to his office in Atlanta. Dick's mother, now frail and 84, still lives in Russell, Ga. (pop. 150) with her oldest grandson, Richard Russell Green...
Lesser Evil. In Youngstown, Ohio, Nurse Gwendolyn Owens, 24, ignored the railroad brakeman's red lantern, drove on until she crashed into a train, later explained: "I didn't want to stop in that neighborhood after dark...