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...fighting, Clark went back to file by wire five pages more copy, which he updated on Monday. Clark's report became a 78-line story, about a column and a quarter, in the July 23 issue. The writer in New York, aided by other reports from Washington and Topeka, Kans., worked from a full, clear picture of the flood...
...fake train collision, the supercolossal climax of Paramount's old-time rail saga called The Denver and Rio Grande. The D. & R.G. itself donated the equipment, due for scrapping. Producer Nat Holt staged the wreck as a fictional incident of the railroad's struggle with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe some 70 years ago, to push the first railway track through Colorado's Royal Gorge. Producer Holt had only one misgiving about his $165,000 real thing: "It looks so good, people will probably think it was staged with miniatures...
...wild, and the worst of all was the Kansas, which Kansans call the Kaw. Its waters rolled into Manhattan (pop. 18,996) in raging flood, and businessmen along the main streets had to be taken out in boats. More than 20,000 people were driven from their homes in Topeka, the state capital. Flood water spilled over the Santa Fe railroad tracks near Emporia and for 55 hours stranded 337 passengers in the crack passenger train El Capitan. Rancher Bill Brandt landed his small plane on a nearby highway 15 times to bring in supplies and to take out five...
Chesapeake and Ohio (Lindy Doherty; Capitol). A new novelty chugs along the tracks cleared by such crack trains as the Chattanooga Choo Choo and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa...
George W. Snyder, Jr. gb '29, Topeka State Bank, Topeka, Kansas...