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...Heineman, chairman of the Chicago & North Western Railway, the "commuter's friend"? Phooey!! Between late trains, unheated cars and increased fares, all we need is another "friend" like Mr. Heineman and we'll have to move our offices to the suburbs...
...grateful to this railway. En route to Chicago, I can catch up with my reading. The morning of your Heineman story I read TIME cover to cover. We were only one hour and 40 minutes late...
Chicago & North Western Railway System Chicago...
...breed. The son of a wealthy Wausau, Wis. lumberman who went broke in the Depression, Heineman studied law at Northwestern University ('36), set up practice in Chicago. In 1954, invited in by dissident investors, he won an acrimonious proxy war for control of the little Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway, boosted earnings fast. In 1956, with one-third of its stock in his control, Heineman went after the much bigger but shaky North Western, was invited in by the board as chairman. A few hours after taking over, Heineman left on a six-week, 9,000-mile tour along North...
...abstraction. Even the doctor exists more as a luminous conscience than a physical presence; all the reader is ever told of his appearance is that he is tall and has "a snub nose and an unremarkable face." As for the novel's structure, it is like an endless railway journey in which the reader sometimes waits yawningly for the next station of the plot. Yet these defects mask virtues. Coincidence is the logic of destiny, and Dr. Zhivago has a strong sense of his destiny. The massed characters and episodes help to give the book panoramic scope...