Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that sometimes makes it too neat, The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit is a good movie. It deals with Madison Avenue squarely and in its own terms; so that what the movie "says" has meaning for its subject. Once Gregory Peck is first shown on his commuter's train, the action devolops consistently out of itself, and the pleas for some kind of honesty or simplicity have a meaning for the people from whom they come...
...left a request that American Express have her cremated and scatter her ashes on the Nile. Asked by the U.S. embassy, in 1954, to look for a traveling Vassar girl whose father had died at home, the Paris office found that it had booked the girl on a train trip to Nice, followed the trail through five countries before catching up with her in Zurich. After a New York matron complained that her daughter had disappeared in Europe, the company finally tracked the girl down in Paris, where she had set up light housekeeping with a Frenchman. One Christmas...
...American Express Building at 65 Broadway, he plunges straight into dictation. By the time the vice presidents arrive-no later than 9 a.m. if they want to avoid Reed's wrath -a drift of yellow memos has usually settled over their desks. Even on trips by car or train, Reed pores through his briefcase, dictating to a secretary...
Robert Montgomery scored with a taut production of Robert Wallace's The Long Way Home, starring John Beal as a Connecticut commuter stricken with a heart attack as his train pulls out of Grand Central Terminal. What gripped the viewer, as it did the readers of the original LIFE story, was Real's it-could-happen-to-you helplessness at the hands of strangers: the well-intentioned conductor who let him off the train at a deserted station where he faced a seemingly endless climb to reach the street, a calloused cop who thought that Beal was drunk...
Divorced. By Ruth Roman, 32, statuesque cinemactress (The Bottom of the Bottle, Strangers on a Train): Mortimer Hall, 32, president and general manager of Los Angeles radio station KLAC; after six years of marriage, one child; in Santa Monica, Calif...