Word: atchison
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...wrong Berlin." Edward Jablonski, Berlin's biographer and a confidant for many years, attributes the slur to jealousy "at a time when Warren's own Hollywood career was in decline." This is way off: Warren had five #1 songs in the 40s (including "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" and "On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe"); Berlin had only one (all right, it was "White Christmas," but still...) Besides, Berlin doesn't seem to have let Warren's feelings get in the way of another song quote. His 1947 "The Freedom Train" includes the lines: "It's a song about a train...