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...Home to Frisco. After Marilyn and Joe were inaccessible for two days, Lawyer Giesler announced that Marilyn would hold a "silent" press conference; she would pose for pictures but would not talk. While the press waited outside the house, Joe came out with his bags, mumbled that he was going "home" to San Francisco, drove off in his blue Cadillac convertible...
MERGER may be in the offing between the $350 million Frisco System and the $103 million Central of Georgia. The two railroads would connect at Birmingham, and complement each other's business; the Middlewestern Frisco would send its trains east to the Atlantic and the Georgia operate 1,000 miles westward. Talk is at the stage where Frisco President Clark Hungerford is looking over the Georgia line...
...crops fail, and he has to peddle firewood from door to door. One last chord of longing keeps Ase playing at life: he wants to see his brother Ben before he dies. At the age of 80, he does. He finds Ben a wizened-up derelict dying in a Frisco flophouse. "I failed," Ase tells him. "You've done right, Ase," says Ben. Both brothers die content...
...original touch in this picture however, comes in the fact that the accused "boss" is not guilty. The Senator has been duped by the Chief Counsel, listening to his unsubstantiated charges as he makes love to her overlooking Frisco...
...thanks to the spring floods, water as well." Headquarters was a rented office in Peoria's dingy Union Station; customers were practically nonexistent. Equipment was run down and morale was low. Russ Coulter, a Colby College graduate and a veteran railroader from the St. Louis-San Francisco ("Frisco") Railway Co., perked things up. Soon firemen were out on the tracks, voluntarily working at laborers' wages to put the roadbed in shape...