Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Parnell Kiley, 62, resigned as president and chief executive of the 10,628-mile Milwaukee Road. A hearty, old-style railroader, Kiley went to work full time for the Milwaukee after graduating as a civil engineer in 1914, bulled his way up as everything from rodman on a survey team to auditor of accounts before becoming president in 1950. His probable successor: Vice President and General Counsel William John Quinn, 46, a former FBI man who went to Milwaukee in 1954 after climbing to vice president and general counsel of the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad...
...more famous ladies, "Hollywood's most eligible bachelor" vanished in a cloud of idle speculation. Was there a Welshman in the woodpile? Was Dar-jeeling-born Anna's real name Johanna O'Callaghan? Back in Cardiff, Wales, William Patrick O'Callaghan, a former railroad man in India, said he was her father, told delighted newsmen: "That's our daughter, and both me and the missus were born in London." He said Johanna had moved to Cardiff with them when she was 13, got a job in a butcher's shop, later was shipped...
...manner of Cezanne; some are even reported to be secretly painting abstractions. If so, no samples were shown at the current exhibition. Instead, there were conscientious sketches of oil derricks, streaking red jets, power lines, blast furnaces, and a young Soviet woman standing fast with a lantern by a railroad switch...
...Service. In Norwalk, Ohio, a jury awarded $16,666 damages to Railroad Brakeman Ellis Dotson, 44, after his chagrined wife complained that a railroad accident impaired his ability to work on their farm, caused an impediment in his speech, and "that's not so bad, he can't kiss the way he used...
...second part is McHugh's A Minute's Wait. McHugh is less well-known than O'Connor and Lady Gregory, and his play is the slightest of the three. It is a plotless romp around a rural railroad station, and can best be described as fifteen Irish Alec Guinesses, turned loose in front of a camera. Good fun, and a fine contrast to the somber opening of the final piece...