Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born Marion Michael Morrison in Winterset, Iowa, Wayne broke into the movies as a prop man, graduated to cowboy actor when Director John Ford took a shine to him. Through most of the '30s, he made quickie westerns so fast that he "practically had to sleep on a horse." In 1939 Director Ford came to the rescue with a leading role in Stagecoach. After that, Wayne's career went ahead at full gallop...
Gloomy Author Arthur (Darkness at Noon) Koestler (see BOOKS), booked for punching a Paris policeman, candidly admitted that it was true. He said he celebrated finishing a new book by getting drunk, went to sleep at the curb in his car after deciding "the road seemed to be going uphill all the way." When he was arrested and taken to the station house, "conditioned by my past experiences with policemen, I lost my temper and struck this officer. The police merely held my hands until I had regained my temper. Later the police showed some willingness to forget...
...routes are spliced to Keeshin's, P.I.E. will have a 24,000-mile coast-to-coast truck network, winding through 23 states and the District of Columbia. By running Keeshin's routes with P.I.E. efficiency, Humphries & Johnson think they can truck freight from coast to coast in 9off sleep with coffee. A P.I.E. run from Oakland to Chicago uses a relay team of ten men, one for each section of the route which twists up the gear-grinding slopes of the Rockies and through the Midwest plains to the East...