Word: brakeman
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...Wait until they hear about this in Munich!" said Lorenz Nieberl, brakeman of the German bob. "Too bad the German flag isn't here," said Driver Andreas Ostler...
...Real Bad Hurt. Betty's life began on Feb. 26, 1921, in Battle Creek, Mich., "by the railroad tracks between Postum and Kellogg." She was two when her father, a railroad brakeman named Percy Thornburg, drifted off to California with another woman. Soon after, the mother took Betty and Marion to Lansing. They did not hear of Thornburg again until 1937, when he killed himself in a Los Angeles suburb and left the two girls $100 each...
...away from Hollywood's familiar faces, Scripter-Director-Producer Robert Rossen filmed most of his picture in Stockton, Calif, (pop. 66,000), casting townsfolk in all but the principal roles. He used a railroad brakeman as Pa Stark, the city's sheriff as the sheriff, a local preacher as the preacher. In the big crowd scene just before Willie Stark's assassination, he turned four cameras loose at once on Stockton's non-professional extras to get their unrehearsed reactions to Crawford's speech...
...bobsled championships of the world to be decided, the tourists were kept on the sidelines. Hell-for-leathers from three nations-France, Switzerland and the U.S. -used oil and emery-paper to make their sleds even slicker and faster. One of the bobbers was 235-lb. Bill Casey, brakeman for one of the U.S. four-man entries. While the two-man championships were being run, Casey lined up with the spectators at perilous Shady Corner, a hairpin curve that has to be taken just right...
Next morning, after workmen had spent all night spraying 20,000 gallons of water on the run to make it smoother and faster, Brakeman Bill Casey and his U.S. fellow crewmen adjusted their helmets and inspected their 507-lb. sled. The driver was ruddy-cheeked Stan Benham, chief of the Lake Placid fire department, who turned to bobsledding four years ago because he found ski-jumping too tame. When Benham said, "All right, let's go boys," all four took their positions for the push-off. Once in motion, with feet planted in stirrups and hands clutching straps, they...