Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Railroad Hour (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). Dorothy Kirsten and Gordon Mac-Rae in New Moon...
...rousing the conquered peoples of Europe, by radio and leaflet, to active support for Dday. As D-day grew closer, they warned of bombings to come, urged the French into effective disobedience of German orders. Finally they sent the organized French underground after important specific targets like bridges and railroad switches...
Last week a Manhattan gallery staged an exhibition which fairly well proved the power of Vespignani's draftsmanship. It also showed that at 26, Vespignani is getting a bit weary, for some of the drawings were as bad as others were good. Among the worst were railroad yards briary enough to be mistaken for bad etchings of French cathedrals. Among the best were two drawings of a girl named Grazielle, done with such directness and bite that Goya himself would not have been ashamed of them...
...They Just Don't Care." All week long before Seoul fell, the refugees poured day & night through the city, out across the Han River ice and south along frozen roads, railroad tracks and byways toward Pusan. Hoping that the retreating U.N. forces would still stop somewhere and give them protection from the Communists, more than 1,000,000 of Seoul's 1,200,000 people took to the road. Altogether, nearly 2,000,000 were moving across the countryside...
...lucky ones escaped in army vehicles, battered civilian autos, wheezing motorcycles, oxcarts; thousands packed themselves into southbound railroad gondola cars. But most of them walked, their feet bound with rags, their bodies swathed in bed quilts, blankets, silks. Retreating U.N. troops stopped frequently to rescue crying babies strapped to the backs of mothers who had fallen dead...