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...Chuca Choo, Chuca Choo. Several other railroad unions had the same kind of origin as the Firemen. Working on the railroad was a hazardous way of making a living in the 19th century. Many a fireman was scarred by a boiler explosion, many a yardman was mashed between cars. So often did brakemen fall from atop moving cars that one in three would be injured or killed in the course of a year. Understandably, insurance companies were reluctant to insure railroaders. In the railroad workers' need for insurance the first rail unions had their beginnings, as fraternal insurance societies...
...theater audiences over the top on its initial roller-coaster ride in 1952 and infected the nation's shopkeepers with an "o-rama" syndrome. Having won its spurs at Angkor Wat, it now tries an epic with a plot. No other screen could contain all the bang-banging, choo-chooing, galloping, whooping and thundering that three directors (Henry Hathaway, John Ford and George Marshall), 13 stars, ten costars, 12,000 extras, and 1,000 buffaloes have done in How the West Was Won. Even the troublesome match-lines where the images from three projectors come together-the process...
...should come as no surprise that one can again expect to find the Mets toward the bottom of the senior circuit. Manager Casey Stengel, the only de Gaulle figure in baseball, might move his team up a notch if Choo-Choo Coleman provides power behind the plate and Los Angeles rejects Tim Harkness and Larry Burright invigorate the infield. Stengel has a sharp lefthander in Al Jackson, but he's no independent deterrent...
With one eye on The Beggar's Opera, Bart has contrived a sort of lovable rogues' operetta, Oliver! is chockablock with songs that are as straightforward, single-minded and rhythmic as a choo-choo train, and they do keep the show steaming briskly and more or less merrily along. Five months on the road have given the company the treacherous confidence, on reaching Broadway, to overplay characters that were already over written to the point of caricature. The cast also knows where all the laughs are buried, and it squirrels them out with stagy anticipatory glee. Bruce Prochnik...
...Sneezeproof pepper, designed to take the ah-choo out of cooking-out, is now being made by the Albert Ehlers Co. of Brooklyn. Ground to a uniform medium size rather than the traditional ultrafine powder, the new pepper stays put, is not as likely to be blown into noses by passing breezes. Research conducted by the company's laboratory shows that the new grind, with its larger particles and less dust, brings on 73% fewer sneezes than the old kind. Price...