Word: train
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Many of you have written to tell me about some unexpected train of events set off by the appearance of a story in TIME. Here are three current examples, all of them involving authors who can credit TIME with getting them started or encouraging them to keep going...
When Harry Truman arrived at Washington's Union Station to leave for Independence six hours after the inauguration he was greeted by a cheering crowd so heavy that he had trouble getting to his train. ("Make way for the President," boomed the public address system.) When the strains of Auld Lang Syne had died away, Harry Truman made his farewell to Washington. "In all my political career I have never had anything like this," said he. "I'll never forget it if I live to be a hundred, and that's just what I expect...
...passed K Tower, Train Director John Feeney grabbed his telephone and dialed the stationmaster's office, which stood in the station concourse at the head of Track 16, and directly in the path of the oncoming juggernaut. The phone was answered instantly by Stationmaster's Clerk Ray Klopp. "Get the hell out of there!" shouted Feeney into the telephone. Klopp began to sputter indignantly. "Runaway train coming right at you!" bellowed Feeney. Klopp wasted no more time. He wheeled and yelled, "Runaway tram...
...train thundered down the tracks between passenger-loading platforms, catapulted over the stopping block, plunged through a newsstand, and emerged into the concourse like a bull elephant bursting out of a screen of jungle. It headed incongruously across the floor toward the crowded waiting room. Then the concrete flooring gave way and it crashed through into a baggage room below amid clouds of steam and dust and a heart-stopping tumult of sound. The first coach hung at an angle over the gaping hole. The second coach also entered the concourse. Other front coaches were derailed, but passengers...
...Rose Bowl, could only mutter that "football won't be the same without the two-platoon system. It made for a better game." Said Ohio State's Woody Hayes, whose goman squad gets its practice for only an hour and 20 minutes daily: "We simply cannot train a boy to play offense and defense in that time...