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Travelers who have never heard of Whistler's Father have remarked that this 400-mile line is one of the straightest on earth. According to legend, the Tsar so ordered it by ruling a line on the map. According to Parry, Major Whistler's skill and economy had much to do with it. A firm Irish Yankee, he was amazed to find Russian engineers behaving like poets, actors, priests and revolutionaries (Dostoevsky graduated from the Imperial Engineering School in 1843). He proudly refused a commission in the Tsar's army, refused to say "Your Majesty" to Nicholas...
...nothing to say, Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but their silence was eloquent. As frontline officers between 1914 and 1918, their experiences with the universal human activity gave rise to the two straightest and grimmest accounts of World War I produced in England, respectively Memoirs of an Infantry Officer and Goodbye to All That. Last week Sassoon was in seclusion; Graves had volunteered again...
...proposed to make it into a motor road, cynical post-War Pennsylvanians dubbed it "Dream Highway." Last week the first contracts were let for draining the tunnels and Pennsylvania prepared to spend $73,000,000 to make the dream come true. The new four lane road is the straightest practical line from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh, its 164½ miles being 40 miles shorter than the present Lincoln Highway-which it crosses three times. Of the almost 14,000 ft. of cumulative climb on the Lincoln Highway, 10,000 ft. will be missing in the new road. Only bottlenecks will...
Hubert H. Hauck '38 was victorious in a series of starts with Rheingold beer. Dawson's Pale Ale was easily the fastest in the field, but an inebriate tendency to run into the gutter often prevented it from finishing. Although a slow roller, Pabst invariably took the straightest course and occasionally triumphed when the faster competitors stuck by the wayside. However, interest died out when a strong arm of the law objected to the racket raised by the spectators...
...atmosphere of "we're-all-B. & O.-men-together" is one President Willard likes to get into his bulletins. Sample: "No matter how hard we try, we cannot make the B. & O. the greatest, straightest or richest railroad, but we can. if we try hard enough, create for it the reputation of being the best railroad in the world from the point of service." A prime Willard maxim: "Be a good neighbor." Farmer boys and girls up and down his line get settings of eggs. Officials are sent to make friends with local shippers. And in 1927 "Uncle...