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Shear Luck. In Atwater, Calif., Bill Blasingame failed to stop his truck in time at a railway crossing, sat helplessly while a passenger train clipped off the front end up to the windshield; stepped out on wobbly legs...
...SANTA FE RAILWAY henceforth will serve only one of the three cities in its famed title-Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. Kansas Supreme Court ruled that railroad, which has not served Santa Fe for years, could drop money-losing passenger service to Atchison, Kans. Line will serve Topeka only as alternate stop...
Before he decided to be a full-time composer at 27, Walter Piston worked as a draftsman for the old Boston Elevated Railway (he helped draw plans for an "articulated streetcar") and studied painting. His painting teacher advised him: "Don't be afraid to make a poor one." Since then, unafraid Composer Piston, now 64, has turned out a steady flow of works, none of them poor, most (including a 1948 Pulitzer-prizewinning Third Symphony) concise, witty, technically brilliant. Last week the Boston Symphony Orchestra performed the latest Piston, Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, to warm applause. As played...
...year-old firm that has made "Levi's" a synonym for all blue jeans. Son of Board Chairman Walter A. Haas, he graduated from Harvard Business School ('39), started as a $100-a-month factory worker. ¶Stuart T. Saunders, 48, executive vice president of Norfolk & Western Railway Co., became president, succeeding retiring Robert H. Smith, 69. After graduating from Roanoke College ('30) and Harvard Law School ('34), Saunders practiced law in Washington, joined N. & W.'s legal department in 1939, moved up to general counsel...
...broken by scrubby hills and low, rocky mountains. So rough is this terrain that even the French have made no serious effort to fortify the frontier itself. Instead, the French army has built the "Morice line," a 150-mile electrified barbed-wire fence along the Bône-Tebessa Railway (see map), which at some points lies as much as 50 miles west of the frontier. Any break in the wire is instantly registered on control panels in military posts and brings a detachment of French troops hustling to the threatened area...