Word: trainings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most recent work has been the study of meteors. By photographing them and studying their orbits, he has discovered that the upper regions of the atmosphere change in density during the course of a year. "Whipple's Wagon Train" is currently travelling through New Mexico collecting meteors and watching them fall...
...This Grand Old U.S.A." Daylight came in the windows of the four Pullmans. The train joggled on. The boys poured each other some eye-openers and the stories began again and grew more wonderful...
...stiffs who marched with me yesterday and who marched with me all over France." The old stiffs marched wearily outside to their buses, rolled back to their hotels, picked up their bags, and joggled across town to Union Station. The heroes of 30 years ago climbed aboard the train for Kansas City. In no time at all, comfortable snores filled the four Pullmans...
...enchanting everyone within earshot of his piano (his mother, Kate Porter, now 87, made him practice every day). At Yale he moved about socially and expensively, wrote undergraduate shows, skipped regularly into Manhattan to see the Broadway output, and often got back to the campus on a milk train...
Pearls & Sauce Cooks. A man who can afford to get tired of a place, he would take to train, plane or steamship whenever the urge hit him. He once turned up a week late on a trip from Hollywood to Manhattan to work on Red, Hot and Blue. He explained to his collaborators, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, that he had detoured to Callander, Ont., to get a look at the Dionne quintuplets. Once, drinking dark beer in Munich with a Yale crony, Monty Woolley, he decided to follow the trail of the brew as it grew lighter; they wound...