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Little White School. Almond was born in Charlottesville on June 15, 1898, the second of the five children of a Southern Railway locomotive engineer who retired, after a 1901 head-on collision, to his 250-acre family farm in rolling Orange County. There, near the tiny village of Locust Grove on the Chancellorsville battlefield, just four miles from the Wilderness thicket where Stonewall Jackson was mortally wounded by his own men, Lindsay Almond grew up. Lindsay did farm chores, worked nights with his mother at the kitchen table, learned to read and write even before he trudged...
...second race of the day was scheduled at 5:30 p.m., some five hours after the contest with RAF Benson. During the afternoon, Coach Brown and his crew waited anxiously at a small house in the town two blocks from the railway station. Although comparative timings showed Harvard to be superior, Thames had an average weight of almost 13 stone. With the eyes and ears of the nation watching or listening to the BBC, anything might have happened...
Moscow's reddest carpet rolled out last week, not for a visiting Communist, but for a Homburged, blue-suited visitor who looked like what he is: a capitalist tycoon. On hand to greet the TU-104 jet that brought Cleveland Industrialist Cyrus S. Eaton (Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, Steep Rock Iron Mines) were crowds of children bearing flowers, and Soviet Minister of Agriculture Vladimir Matskevich bearing official greetings. Three years ago Eaton gave Matskevich's department a prize Shorthorn bull, which had nobly performed to improve the quality of Russia's herds...
Outside Paris, terrorists sabotaged the railway at Salbris, fired gasoline depots near Le Havre and in six different places in the south of France. In Toulouse, 300,000 gallons of gasoline burned up. Near Marseille, firemen fought a gas fire that was to last all week...
When Railroader Arthur Samuel Genet was brought in as president of limping Greyhound Corp. three years ago, he took a look around and began to deride the company's veteran bus executives. Genet, who had done well as freight vice president of Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, growled that the sales staff of the world's biggest intercity bus line had "no thorough experience or training" and was "sitting on its hands." He charged that the advertising and publicity programs had "failed miserably...