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Progress Heritage. Russell is writing for Southern Pacific a greater saga than the one begun by famed Railroader E. H. Harriman, whose Union Pacific bought working control of the Southern Pacific in 1901 for $42 million, spent some $240 million to improve it.-It was Harriman who pioneered automatic block signals, spanned Utah's Great Salt Lake with 16 miles of embankment and twelve miles of trestle. The S.P. is the nation's second-longest railroad (after the Santa Fe); adding wholly owned affiliates and the Cotton Belt, which it controls (88%), it is the longest, with...
...saga of the Scythian shepherd who vaultingly subdued half of Asia and Africa is too brutally simple for true drama. With its host of bloody conquests and dearth of inner conflict, with its portrayal of one who toppled realms like tenpins, it scarcely provides even variations on a single theme. As Tamburlaine sweeps on, nothing interrupts his conquests and cruelties but his Marlovian sense of physical beauty and his feeling for Zenocrate, the captive princess whom he loved and lost...
Self v. Good. It was a turning point in the saga of the empire, which, after a few disputed additions, was to grow only smaller. Already in London young Churchill, on the threshold of a brilliant parliamentary career, was immersed in discussions about colonialism and "the issue of whether peoples have a right to self-government or only to good government." The Sudan got "good" government. For centuries Arab slave traders from the north had raided the Negro villages of the south, sold their captives on eastern markets. The British put down the slave trade. The dancing Dervishes became respectable...
...weak-spirited menfolk and a herd of cattle more than 600 long miles, through drought, ambush and ennui, from parched Texas to verdant Wyoming. Subsequent Frontier programs will tell of Poker Alice (Joan Vohs), the coolest gambler on the plains, and the Long Road to Tucson will relate the saga of seven nuns on the trail from San Diego to the Arizona territory. So far, Wyatt Earp (starring Hugh O'Brian) has permitted only the occasional intrusion of women, but Brave Eagle (with Keith Larsen and Kim Winona) and Gunsmoke each have a hot-eyed heroine ready and willing...
...this saga of Superman on horseback is impeded by a horde of females. First onscreen is dewy-eyed Karen Sharpe, who trembles like a subway grating each time Bob goes roaring past. Next comes imperious Jan Sterling, manageress of a gaggle of dancing girls at the Palace Saloon. Jan has a secret: she is Mitchum's estranged wife, and soon they are exchanging the barbed dialogue that veteran moviegoers recognize as the Hollywood hallmark of true love. Eventually, while his enemies steal up on him from two directions, Mitchum takes that long, long walk down the deserted cow-town...