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...Lausanne railway station platform last week there was a tender parting. The goodbyes were perhaps not forever. Teddybear-tall (6 ft. 2 in.), shy King Michael of Rumania kissed his girl goodbye. The girl was long-legged Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma...
...Freedom Train (TIME, Sept. 22) with its display of historical documents began a tour of six Georgia cities-after dutifully coupling on a "Heritage Train" (one Central of Georgia Railway baggage car) in which local patriots had proudly deposited the original manuscripts of the Constitution of the Confederate States and of Gone With the Wind...
Stanley inherited from his father Alfred the thriving steel works of Baldwins, Ltd., a directorship of the Great Western Railway, and the pocket borough of Bewdley in Worcestershire. He made little impression at school or Varsity, or in the House of Commons. After seven years in Parliament he was feeling useless and ready to quit. But his wife, Lucy Ridsdale (with whom he had fallen in love as he watched her bowl in a cricket match), urged him to stick it out three more years...
Examiner Boles, usually a mild-mannered man, looked hard at Young's argument for a close alliance between the Central and his Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. In his report he called it a jumble of "opinions, prophecies, speculation and . . . pure fancy." Young's purchase of Central stock with C. & O. funds, he added, was to satisfy "his personal ambition." It showed "a willingness to take great risks with the company's funds"; so far, it had let C. & 0. in for a paper loss of $2,400,000. The stock bought at $18.98 a share...
...Over redcaps' protests, eastern railway stations upped the fee for each bag from 10? to 15?. The redcaps figured that the higher the fee (all of which goes to the terminal), the smaller...