Word: switchman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lower bunk of Wanger's cell lay stone-faced Evan Charles Thomas, the warped railroad switchman who, with his .22 rifle, had murdered one woman, wounded four, and thus inspired the recent movie The Sniper (TIME, May 19). But Producer Wanger slept the sound sleep of a man who knew an ordeal was all but ended. Its climax had really come last December when Wanger fired a pistol bullet into the groin of Actors' Agent Jennings Lang, whom Wanger then accused of trying to break up his marriage with Actress Joan Bennett. After Wanger threw himself...
...Glover, once a switchman himself, could still read a red signal when he saw it. Within nine hours, he called an end to the strike on the Great Northern, the Chicago Great Western, the Denver & Rio Grande Western and the Western Pacific...