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Journalistic Homers have sung for years the deeds of the Eastern trunk lines in their unceasing consolidation battles. Last week they smote a new chord on their lyres, began a new canto of the railroad epic. They turned to the West and the great Western railroads. In San Francisco last week sat Charles D. Mahaffie, Interstate Commerce Commissioner. Before him came Ralph Budd, President of the Great Northern, Paul Shoup, President of the Southern Pacific, Arthur Curtiss James, Western Pacific Board Chairman, Harry M. Adams, Western Pacific President, and some 200 other witnesses and parties in the case. All these...
Achilles in this canto of the railroad epic is played by Arthur Curtiss James of the Western Pacific. Bearded, eye-glassed, urbane, he is known for different things to different people. To Manhattan socialites he is the host of a huge granite mansion on Park Avenue at 69th Street. To yachtsmen, he is the able and enthusiastic skipper of the famed square-rigged yacht, Aloha. To many a rich old lady he is vice president of Phelps-Dodge Co. To flower fanciers he is known for the unique arrangement of his Park Avenue mansion: the bedrooms open on a central...
Lured away by the prospect of seeing an epic gridiron struggle and by a desire to find out what the Yale team looks like under fire, Time Out took a journey to New Haven on Saturday. The epic struggle was there alright and Yale with littler Albie Both in the Starring role looked pretty fine under fire; so the trip was a success...
...epic tale of a lonely girl working in dusty grainfields is the story of Ruth. One of the most dramatic and colorful scenes in all literature is the description of her entering the threshing room at night, creeping to where the mighty farmer Boaz lay drunken on a pile of corn, softly snuggling herself to sleep at his feet. Question: Would a child suspect evil...
Enthusiastic were the comments of aviation experts on the successful experimental flight. David Sinton Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of The Navy for Aeronautics: "Consider this achievement of inestimable value to aviation." Edward Pearson Warner, Editor of Aviation, Mr. Ingalls' predecessor in the Navy Department : ''An epic of aviation. Nothing approaching its importance has been accomplished within the past two years." Thurman Harrison Bane, chief of The Aviation Corp.'s technical staff: "Doolittle's flight marks the first stage in man's conquest of flying in fog, now aviation's greatest obstacle." Charles Sherman ("Casey...