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...Titfield Thunderbolt (Rank; Universal-International) will carry railway enthusiasts on a satisfying junket through the past century of British railroading. When nationalization dooms the unprofitable branch line running from rural Titfield to the market town of Mallingford. the indignant citizens of Titfield take over the archaic rolling stock, with the vicar serving as engineer, the village ne'er-do-well as fireman, and a local squire as brakeman. An alcoholic landowner (Stanley Holloway) supplies the necessary money on being promised that the early-morning train will carry a bar-and-buffet...
...Plank. The man most responsible for the explosive change was Harry Guy Bartholomew, "brilliant, truculent, mercurial, [whose] normal means of communication with his staff was the hand grenade; if urgent, the thunderbolt." "Bart," who habitually pushed his Rolls-Royce at 70 m.p.h., drove his staff just as hard. Prankishly, he liked to take visitors on a tour of the city room, bang an editor over the head with an eight-foot plank, then rock with laughter when his guests found that the plank was made of feather-light balsa wood. On occasion, the Mirror used the slogan, "All the News...
...Stab in the Back." But from Washington last week, at the most indelicate moment possible, came a thunderbolt that jolted Italy to almost desperate anger. Questioned about the U.S. stand on the five-year-old promise of all Trieste for Italy, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles implied that the U.S. might consider some other plan for the territory (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Then came the idea, hitting Blot like a thunderbolt. "You've got to write about what interests them," he said aloud. "No one cares about Kurds and gypsies, but almost everybody reads the CRIMSON. We'll write about them...
...years, rose to president in 1935. In the late 1930s he learned about commercial air transport by joining American Airlines as vice president in charge of operations. In World War II the War Department asked him to boss Republic Aviation to speed up production of badly needed P47 Thunderbolt fighters. He returned to American in 1943, was named president two years later...