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Died. Frederic Adrian ("Uncle Fred") Delano, 89, Hong Kong-born railway executive, city planner (he beautified Washington as its 1924-42 park & planning chief), and uncle of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whom he served for nine years as chairman of the National Resources Planning Commission; in Washington...
...success to making trade-magazine publishing honest. Trade papers were paste-ups from advertisers' handouts when James H. McGraw, an ex-schoolteacher and part-time magazine salesman, started out in 1884. As payment for $1,500 in subscription commissions, he got an interest in a monthly called Street Railway Journal, insisted from the start that trade magazines "have an educational mission . . ." But when he tried to educate his partners (e.g., the magazine must concentrate on the new electric trolleys), they argued that trolley owners would never give up horses and lose their profitable sideline selling manure...
Mattiwilda was born the fifth of six daughters of John W. Dobbs, an Atlanta railway mail clerk who is also a vice-chairman of Georgia's Republican State Central Committee. Her name was concocted from those of her maternal grandmother (Mattie Wilda), and she sees no reason to change it: "People usually remember it." She sang solos in Atlanta's First Congregational Church as a youngster, went from that to music studies at Atlanta's Spelman College. In 1946 she shipped off to Manhattan to study voice, but prudently supplemented her musical training with teaching credits, took...
...consolation existed for Edwin Booth. In a railway station one day, he saw a young man, jostled by the crowd, fall between the platform and the wheels of a moving train. Booth sprang forward, pulled him up, and saved his life. The young man was Abraham Lincoln's son Robert...
...Munich railway station, he almost gave the show away when he called out in English, "All right, Hank, I've got the tickets," but he drew only glares from the crowd. A short distance from the Swiss frontier, they were challenged by a German sentry, but posed as Flemish workingmen and convinced him. That night, less than four days after leaving Colditz, Reid and his friend stopped under a lamppost in a Swiss village and shook hands. Even the British government thought it was a pretty good getaway. Reid's reward: the Military Cross...