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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Behind it the 6:13 rushed closer & closer, its coaches performing a rattling dance upon their trucks, its crowded passengers and their upraised newspapers swaying in rhythmic unison. Its engineer, a 55-year-old railroader named Benjamin Pokorney, fled past a stop signal 3,516 feet from the stalled 6:09 at 60 miles an hour, apparently gambling (as other engineers have before him) that the track ahead would clear in time. He had only 850 feet of rails left when his headlight told him the terrible truth...
...floodlights bathed the shattered cars in an unearthly brilliance. Cops, firemen and workmen with big jacks scrambled toward the cars; doctors and nurses crept and crawled up ladders and into the wreckage, hypodermic needles in hand. Welders began to create their blinding cascades of sparks while firemen sprayed water past them to keep trapped humans from, burning. A jostling crowd gathered, a sound truck began rasping out commands...
Motherhood has been getting safer & safer for the past 100 years-ever since Lister introduced antiseptic methods and Semmelweis showed how to check the spread of childbed fever. The Journal of the American Medical Association reported last week that in 1949 the U.S. set a proud record by becoming the first large nation with a maternal death rate of less than one per 1,000 live births. In 1948 the rate was 1.2, and in 1933 (before the sulfas and antibiotics...
...girl has a miserable evening. But if she is wretched from being poor and in love and not in society, so are most of those who are rich and in society and not really in love, who go yawning through fairyland, yearning for adventure, or poverty, or the past...
After this talk, the informal reminiscing of friends and past members of WHRB will be broadcast. Dean Leighton, Thornton Wilder, Norton Professor of Poetry, and Archibald MacLeish, Bolyston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, have been invited to take part in these discussions...