Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficulties. Her birth in Chicago on Feb. 13, 1933, came as a disappointment to her parents, Joseph and Blanche Novak, native Americans of Bohemian parentage, who had prepared only boys' names for the arrival. The Novaks named her Marilyn Pauline. Joe Novak, a claim clerk for the Milwaukee Railroad, is a melancholy, tight-lipped man whom little Marilyn tried hard to please; she seldom succeeded. Marilyn proved to be lefthanded; her father badgered her without success to use her right hand. "It just makes me sick to see anybody write lefthanded, just makes me sick," he explains. Even today...
With the indignation of the historian, Bruce decided this was a "silly plaque" to mark the spot where Garfield, dying of wounds from bullets fired at him by an assassin in Washington's old Sixth Street railroad station, had been sent by his physicians in a last vain hope that the sea air might save his ebbing life. Last week, having started with a contribution from his own weekly 50? allowance, Bruce was in the midst of a campaign to raise funds for a memorial worthy of a President. In time he wants to collect "several hundred dollars...
...Minute's Wait, the longest and best of the lot, is a back-thwacking, shillyshally riot of slapstick. A train-a gruesome Irish hybrid of the Toonerville Trolley and a Long Island Railroad local -pulls into Dunfaill for a minute's stop. Its motley passengers immediately spill out into the station bar and some hilarious vignettes. To make room for a goat, a bewildered British couple are demoted from their first-class compartment into third, there to rub insensitive feelers with a slithering mess of outraged Irish lobsters. A sweater-girl (full-blown by Maureen Connell) snares...
...best of Nolan's paintings, Glenrowan Siege, is a free rendering of the Kelly brothers' last stand. Trapped in the hotel in Glenrowan, a small town astride the main railroad north from Melbourne, the Kelly gang's deadly rifle fire held off a company of troopers for 12½ hours until the authorities, who had sent for a twelve-pounder and detachment of garrison artillery, set the hotel on fire...
Died. Paul Starrett, 90, co-founder (1922) and longtime board chairman of Starrett Brothers (later Starrett Brothers & Eken), builders of the Empire State Building and such other Manhattan landmarks as the Flatiron Building, Pennsylvania Railroad Station and the Plaza, Commodore and Biltmore hotels, as well as luxury hotels in other cities throughout the U.S., and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.; in Greenwich, Conn...