Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Idlewild the Orrs taxied to Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal (the driver tried to overcharge them). In the busy, navelike waiting room, with its constant turnover of travelers, Jimmy Orr lay on a bench for almost seven hours sweating out a train for Toronto. While his family went to a nearby lunch counter for a snack, a motherly Negro tried to make the boy more comfortable. Then the five Orrs boarded the North Star, and sat up all night as the coach made seemingly unlimited stops. As they neared Toronto, Jimmy opened his shirt, looked at the itching...
...larynx is curable with early diagnosis and modern surgery in 60% of cases, and 2,000 patients are operated on every year, the number of U.S. laryngectomees is growing fast-so fast, in fact, that the American Cancer Society, which sponsors the I.A.L., has trouble finding enough therapists to train the recovered patients, who like to call themselves "The Lost Chords." The danger is that they will become just that, and permanently, if they are allowed to wallow in their early discouragement...
...driver was sore, but unhurt. This was fortunate, because he was only ten years old. The near miss with the train and the grisly accident with the truck happened last week on the top of a table in a downstairs room of Toots Shor's restaurant in Manhattan. It was the semifinal of a nationwide contest with a combination game and hobby kit that is beginning to give the electric train a run for its money...
While his 51 -in. waistline does suggest a dirigible, Comedian Jackie Gleason never travels by plane, and sometimes even feels the squeeze on the train. Crossing the country to Hollywood two months ago to make a movie aptly titled Papa's Delicate Condition, Jackie found his rail accommodations of several drawing rooms much too cramped, and on his arrival pronounced himself "embarrassed" at the lack of space. So for his return to Manhattan, ample Jack went whole hog, rented an entire seven-car train (including three club cars) from several railroads and rolled out of Los Angeles last week...
...great majority become summer-long retreats (or, for many, winter retreats) where the children grow up for three months, mother is released from the tedium of city or suburban life, and dad, after rushing out of his office at 5 on Friday and making the trek by auto, train or boat (or a combination of all three), can take his leisure for at least a few days in sylvan surroundings. It is no matter that he must often drain his bank account to carry the second house (as they have become more popular, coveted land sites have rocketed in price...