Word: topeka
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...Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, which countered Southern Pacific's challenge by quickly picking up a 20% holding in Western, wants to run Western as a separate, semi-autonomous railroad, continue to use it to compete with the Southern Pacific. Other railroads joined the fight. The Santa Fe's transcontinental archrival, the Union Pacific, whose lines tie in with the Southern Pacific's, said that it had bought up 10% of Western's stock and that it supported the S.P. The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, which competes with the Santa Fe in the Midwest, also came...
...large, while Bureau Chief John Steele contributed an overall diplomatic appraisal. In Moscow, TIME'S Bureau Chief Edmund Stevens reported from his sources at the U.S. embassy and the Kremlin, while other pieces came in from TIME correspondents and stringers in London, Paris, Bonn, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Kansas City, Topeka and Newark...
...imprisonment bravely. Once every two weeks-all they were allowed-the prisoners wrote home. From their letters, their anxious families could piece together the loneliness of men who dared not guess what their futures promised, what their country could or would do to save them. At her home in Topeka, Kans., near Forbes Air Force Base, John McKone's wife Connie read and reread every word she received. "The handwriting is John's," she told herself after poring over some passages, "but it is not John. His use of words is too stilted." At other times she would...
...using Alf Landon's previously unopened private papers, reveals an attractive personality who had far more liking and leaning toward F.D.R. and the New Deal than his reputation as a ''Kansas Coolidge" and the vituperative 1936 presidential campaign would suggest. In one telling vignette in a Topeka chicken restaurant, a bellicose Hoover barks rapid boos at a Roosevelt radio speech, and an embarrassed Landon hustles him away from the cluster of newsmen. When the supposedly bitter rivals met at a preelection Governors' conference in Des Moines. relations between Landon and F.D.R. were so harmonious that Kansas...
...make a clean break with those bad bygone years. In Aspen, Colo.'s Community Church, she married Houston Oilman W. (for William) Howard Lee, 51, freshly divorced from his second wife, ex-Cinemactress Hedy Lamarr. Lee had courted Gene while she clerked in a dress shop in Topeka as an outpatient in Kansas' renowned Menninger Clinic, and had convinced her that he is a thoroughly reformed playboy. Said the bride: "Everything looks so beautiful today!" In London's Haymarket Theater, shortly before the curtain rose on Terence Rattigan's hit play Ross, a couple strolled down...