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Here is a soothing bit of perspective to consider the next time you are belted in on the runway and the captain announces, "We are 14th in line for takeoff." Before 1869, it could have taken the better part of a month for a stagecoach to make its way across the plains and over the mountains of North America. After 1869, the time was cut to about one smoky, jolting week on the newly completed link known as the transcontinental railroad...
DIED. CLAIRE TREVOR, 91, actress who specialized in playing tough-talking floozies with hearts of gold and won a supporting-actress Oscar for just such a role in Key Largo (1948); in Newport Beach, Calif. One of her most memorable parts came opposite John Wayne in the classic Stagecoach...
...first-class train compartment, he was ordered to move to the "colored" cars in the rear. When he refused, he was hauled off the train and left to spend a freezing night in the station. The next day he was humiliated and cuffed by the white driver of a stagecoach. The experience steeled his resolve to fight for social justice...
...Queen still travels in a gilded stagecoach from Buckingham to Westminster to deliver her speech to the members of parliament, even though the speech is now written by the government and consists of an official outline of its political projects for the new parliamentary session. The speech is still delivered before the House of Lords, even though that chamber ceased to have real power many years ago. An officer in a funny dress still summons the members of the House Commons to listen to the Queen's speech, and the Commons still slam the door in his face and keep...
Testosterone. Machismo. Muscles. Guns. Sweat. Real Men. Let that Y chromosome take over for a few hours as you watch John Wayne play one of his most unforgettable characters, the hero Ringo Kid in the 1939 film Stagecoach. South Boston Library 646 E. Broadway. 268-0180. p.m. FREE...