Word: viaducts
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...jostling crowds on London's Holborn Viaduct last Sunday might have been on their way to a soccer game, but they were actually going to hear a new minister preach at London's most popular church. At a time when most British churches are all but empty, City Temple, the "Cathedral of Nonconformism," often has overflow crowds. Said one temple official last week: "In nearby St. Paul's Cathedral, which holds 3,000, there are seldom more than 30 people at Evensong. If we have less than 1,500, we wonder what is the matter...
...same track as the 5:18, just as crowded and already behind schedule, the steam-driven 4:56 from Cannon Street was headed out for Ramsgate and the channel coast. Overhead, on the viaduct that crosses the main lines on the southeastern edge of London, an electric local was inching forward. At precisely 6:20, in a moment of ghostly horror, the blanket of fog was lit by a blinding blue flash. St. John's grimy brick houses rocked to a crash that sounded, said one resident, "like the explosion of a ton of bombs." Plunging ahead...
...years there-boom years among undergraduates for Marx, sex and sneering at authority-wispy Father Knox made his rooms a gathering place for the university's most glittering wits. It was then that he began producing smoothly turned detective novels, e.g., The Body in the Silo, The Viaduct Murder, to help pay for the tea and anchovy toast...
Clark drove down to Red Cross headquarters in Kansas City, Mo., for a look at the refugee situation there, then crossed the raging Kaw on the Inter City Viaduct into the melee of flood-fighting Kansas City, Kans. Wrote Clark: "Cars loaded with disaster workers were speeding all over the streets, red lights blinking and sirens shrieking. Dazed evacuees milled around . . . Convoys of ten to twenty trucks would form, load up with sweaty, bare-chested men and, led by sirened cars, rush the new volunteers to the scene of the fight...
...witty debaters of the Oxford Union. To eke out his meager chaplaincy allotment he began to produce smoothly written detective novels-a total of six in ten years. (He was once asked if the title page of his Bible would refer to him as "Ronald Knox, author of The Viaduct Murder...