Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lenses, his broad Irish face showing few signs of his 49 years, except for an accordion-like rippling of chins. North Carolina's pale old Senator Clyde Hoey, Democratic chairman of the subcommittee, arrived promptly at hearing time, smiling and looking more than ever like Arthur Train's unforgettable Mr. Tutt in his dark frock coat and customary red boutonniere. Arkansas Democrat John McClellan waved a friendly greeting to Boyle before taking his seat, and Boyle gaily waved back. With a glance at the clock, Senator Hoey ordered the photographers back and rapped for order. Then, during...
...Prague, thousands of white paper leaflets fluttered down. Each night for four nights 2,000 plastic balloons spilled out 2,000,000 leaflets. That was the way the people of Red Czechoslovakia got the real story last week of how Locomotive Engineer Jaroslav Konvalinka raced his Prague-Asch "freedom train" across the Czech border into Germany (TIME, Sept...
Konvalinka himself helped the West's new private and enterprising propaganda agency, Winds of Freedom,* launch its balloons at the German town of Selb, where the train, with 108 people aboard, had ended its escapade. The leaflets carried pictures of Konvalinka, the train, and a group of 18 of the 31 Czechs who did not go back to Czechoslovakia. They also carried a message from Konvalinka scotching the Reds' late, lame explanation that the train had been "kidnaped by U.S agents." Wrote Konvalinka: "My countrymen, I beg you not to believe Americans were involved. It is just...
...freedom train was one of those rare, imaginative exploits which are worth a barrel of slogans, and Winds of Freedom was quick to capitalize on it. So were the authorities. Cutting through the red tape which frequently keeps Iron Curtain refugees bound in detention camps for frustrating months, officials made plans to have all 31 of the freedom train passengers resettled in Canada within a month...
Robert Fletcher designed the costumes and if prizes are available for this sort of work, he deserves one. They are magnificent. Probably the most imaginative number is one worn by Jan Farrand, the Fairy Queen, who enters with an enormous train. This train she later converts into her home for the night, much as a spider who spins...