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...liberties he has taken to meet the necessities of the time he has somehow failed in his most essential role, as breadwinner, by getting himself killed. And some measure of Keetchie's ruefulness about it is indicated in a fine touch at the end, when she sits in a railroad station and tells the woman beside her that her husband died of consumption...
...back on the river around 10 a.m. Still did not catch anything, but it made for a pleasant walk. There was an old lodging railroad bed paralleling the stream, and it was relatively easy to walk a fair distance since someone had kept the bed free of trees (probably for snowmobiling). Spring isn't far enough advanced in northern New Hampshire for the trees to have any green on them, but the evergreens give some color to the sides of the ridges, and the stream is completely free of ice, though only because the water is moving swiftly...
...SCRAP of newspaper blows among the litter of the railroad tracks. A group of people wait on Platform 5 of Baltimore's Penn Station for the 9:45 a.m. train to New York. A middle-aged man dressed in a spotless grey-flannel suit waits nervously with his wife. Her face is heavily powdered and her hair is piled high on her head. Close to the track a wrinkled-looking man in a creased sear-sucker sports coat checks his watch and begins to pace in a narrow circle. His sparse white mustache stands out on his lined black face...
...train rolls across a bridge, a huge sign proclaims, "Trenton Makes, the World Takes." A sign on the railroad station advertises "A Little Night Music" at the Majestic Theater in New York. Outside Trenton, on a plot of farmland, a gaunt bird picks at some seeds among some neatly-plowed furrows...
...Cambridge's difficulties and approved the formation of the Cambridge Model Cities Association (MCA). HUD approved Cambridge neighborhoods three and four as the demonstration area to receive federal funds. Cambridge Street and Mass Ave bound the area on the north and south; Portland Street and the B&A railroad form the western and eastern boundaries...