Word: station
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night last February, Coley B. Chapman, 26, a Negro laborer for the Long Island Rail Road, was waiting for a train in Washington's Union Station when Terminal Policeman Carl Neuman tried to arrest him for drunkenness. In the scuffle, a bullet from Neuman's revolver entered Chapman's forehead, came out just behind the hairline...
Shirley May planned to practice for a few days at Dover, before going to France for the big try. She intended to daub herself with the traditional coat of protective grease, but she did not put it so prosaically to the reporters in London's Waterloo Station. Said Shirley May: "I have brought along four one-piece suits to wear in training, but I will swim the Channel nude. I probably won't even be wearing a suit when I enter the water...
...qualified its negative answer by pointedly limiting it to the "CBS network," which seemed to leave the way open for single-station deals. ABC, rumored willing to accept even a network liquor show, announced cautiously that it had "reached no decision." NBC unblushingly offered the facilities of its' network-owned Station KNBC in San Francisco for a test run. Perhaps in deference to NBC's own policy manual (under the heading: "Business Classifications Unacceptable on NBC" it lists wines and liquor), NBC stipulated that Schenley commercials could be broadcast only after midnight on a disc-jockey show...
Straight-Speaking Pictures. Also conspicuous in the show were the works of Gerard Sekoto, the only Negro artist included. Sekoto was born 35 years ago at a little hill station in the Transvaal where his father was the local mission teacher. As a child he had sketched on the sly, gotten occasional encouragement from schoolmasters, won his first prize in a school competition-a Bible and five shillings. In 1939 he set out for Johannesburg to seek his fortune as an artist. In a few years he had taught himself to paint vivid, straight-speaking pictures of fellow natives crowded...
...seduction of Bobby-Soxer Sally Kelton (Sally Forrest) is neither brutal nor particularly sordid. It is simply commonplace. By the time Sally knows that she is pregnant, her seducer has disappeared and she is already half in love with an upstanding young gas-station manager (Keefe Brasselle). From there on the plot follows all the steps of Sally's degradation and eventual rehabilitation with a kind of remorseless documentary fervor...