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That was the year the Brotherhood was founded. An Erie Railroad fireman was killed in a train wreck, and a railroading friend named Joshua Leach set about taking up a collection for the widow and the children. Leach was so distressed about the plight of the widow, left without funds, that he decided to form a firemen's life insurance association. The eleven original members called themselves Deer Park Lodge No. 1, took oaths and made up secret passwords. From that small beginning grew the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (engineman is an old-fashioned word for fireman...
...More Perfect Union is a new play by TV Writer Whitfield Cook about a Senator's widow flirting with the idea of running for her husband's seat in the Senate. Ginger Rogers has chosen it for this season's straw-hat venture. La Jolla Calif., through...
...Curious Savage is John (Teahouse) Patrick's 1950 comedy about an eccentric widow kept luxuriously in a mental institution by her family to prevent her from giving away her fortune. Spring Byington will play the part created by Lillian Gish. Ogunquit, Me.; Falmouth, Mass.; Fitchburg, Mass.; Laconia, N.H.; Ivoryton, Conn...
When Beckwith was five, his father died of what the death certificate termed "pneumonia and alcoholism." The widow returned to Greenwood with her son, was hospitalized several times for mental ailments, died of cancer at 47. The boy was then twelve. He was thereafter reared by an eccentric uncle, William Green Yerger, who dabbled at farming his family's remaining cotton acres. Mostly, the uncle liked to catch catfish. Sometimes he just stuffed the fish into a dresser drawer at home and left them there...
...payroll suspension from the Los Angeles Angels for refusing to report to their Hawaii farm team, Bo suddenly called the whole thing off. "Maybe he was jealous of my curves," sniffed Mamie. Maybe, but Belinsky was tossing strikes with Delaware's nifty Ricky D. E. du Pont, fortyish, widow of Millionaire Francis V. du Pont. Her new beau, she allows, is "a thorough gentleman." Bo says they are just friends, and adds that he is ready to play ball in Hawaii after all-unless he and Ricky decide to buy a nightclub together...