Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aboard the Queen Mary, bound for England and a summer of television work, Actress Beatrice Lillie (Lady Peel) refused to give photographers a cheesecake pose, instead favored them with a winning smile and a ladylike version of the traditional ship's-rail picture...
...great train wreck. Two old belly-chimneyed, smugde puffing rail riders came at each other on a narrow guage track, and with the help of some well-placed blasting powder, blew their red and gold gothic hot boxes over half an acre of mountain scenery. It was a magnificent thing to behold. It would have been even more satisfying had it come at the beginning of the picture, with the whole cast aboard...
Nearing Kiowa the car went out of control, crashed through the guard rail of a bridge over the Medicine Lodge River, and landed upside down in the water. Neither the driver, Ray Munsell Sr. (who apparently had had a heart attack), nor his wife survived; their daughter-in-law was knocked unconscious...
There's a great thrill when your horse pulls ahead, leads into the backstretch, holds the rail until the finish, and then fades at the fire. It's nice to be in a crowd when there's not a fight...
...event of war, travel will be difficult. The communist underground will probably dynamite the key bridges, so that rail transportation can almost be discounted. Escape by air is the best idea, if one has the nerve to risk running into a MIG. Oceanic travel will of course be enhanced by the Russian submarine fleet. The best idea there is a small, inconspicuous boat...