Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time operator, Monroe still finds time for table-hopping between sets, shaking hands with visiting record salesmen from the Midwest, jawing with disc jockeys from upstate, planning his next cross-country dash. Says he: "You keep in business by keeping in touch with the people . . . playing for everyone there is to play...
Last year, after conducting at Scotland's Edinburgh festival, Rafael Kubelik sent word to Prague (where members of his family still live) that he was not returning to open the 1948-49 season; he would play Czech music, but play it elsewhere. Since then, he and his wife and three-year-old son Martin have made their headquarters in London...
...China's 450 million infidels when they die?" eight-year-old William McCarthy asked the Campbellite circuit-rider. "Son," answered the preacher, "they all go straight to hell." Then & there Ohio-born William McCarthy decided that there was no God. Last week, at 83, white-haired Atheist McCarthy, still of the same mind, was hard at work fighting religion in the New Jersey superior court...
When U.S. railroads lost $560 million on their passenger business last year, it was obvious to railmen that something was wrong-and that something had to be done. The Eastern railroads, which had already had fare increases of 28% in about three years, thought that the answer lay in still higher fares. They asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for a 12½% boost. Last week they got it. But the increase apparently did not solve everything; the news that it had been granted merely started everyone asking again: "What's wrong with the railroads...
...roads had persuasive arguments to prove that their plight was not their fault. With investors shying away from railroads the carriers had trouble financing major improvements, except what could be done out of earnings. Furthermore, the ironclad rules of the railway brotherhoods kept railroad costs high by featherbedding. Worse still, the railroads had suffered from too much regulation, notably, out-of-date rules intended to keep them from becoming transportation monopolies-something which the buses and airlines now prevent, anyway...