Word: trained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inevitable happened. Chuck Luckman turned up in Hollywood to preach his save-food doctrine and witness the start of the "Friendship Train," a cross-country stunt to collect food donated for hungry Europe. Surrounded by the great and near-great of Hollywood, he watched the ceremonies center on a flag-painted collection of boxcars, loaded only with movie stars and searchlight generators. Then, after the famous names had gone home, the real train started out of Glendale station, hauling twelve carloads of wheat, flour, canned milk and a soybean by-product called Multi-Purpose Food...
Heading toward New York, the train began to snowball. At each stop it picked up new carloads. By the end of the second day, it had more than tripled in size. The Friendship Train was not Chuck Luckman's idea. It had been born in the mind of Columnist Drew Pearson as a good-will gesture from the people of the U.S. to the people of Europe. But it would help Luckman's program indirectly...
...Cheyenne, famed Train Robber William ("Wild Bill") Carlisle, 57, was granted a full pardon by the State of Wyoming. In his prime, Wild Bill bedeviled the U.P. line as it has never been bedeviled since. Always sending the road a taunting advance notice, he successfully robbed three U.P. trains in 1916, had a price of $11,500 on his head and 1,000 men hunting him before he was captured and sent to prison for life. Paroled in 1932, he went straight, now runs a tourist camp near Laramie...
...length, and warned Harriet Beecher Stowe that he could not afford to publish a two-volume work. She offered to end it then & there. The magazine polled its readers, who insisted that it continue. One of the first readers was Congressman Philip Greeley. Reading it on the train to Washington, he realized that his tears were attracting the attention of the other passengers. At last he left the train, rented a hotel room in Springfield, Mass., where he could read and weep to his heart's content...
Every weekend before the last game of the season Harry, joined by Jayvee coach Chief Boston or Varsity line tutor Hal Kopp, boards a train for other stadiums to jot down plays used by future Crimson opponents. Every weekend except this one before the Eli battle, that is, Tomorrow Harry will be accompanied by not only the above mentioned two but also by Freshman mentor Henry Lamar. "Four men can chart even the emotions of Howie Odell," Jacunski says...