Word: railways
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...dark-eyed jazz zealot named Marili Morden, proprietor of Hollywood's Jazz Man Record Shop, who finally found the Kid. He had been working in the mail room of Los Angeles' Sante Fe railway station. For nine years his trombone had been collecting dust, but he had not lost the old tailgate technique...
...Macmillan next week. It is a kind of book that U.S. readers seldom see, a miscellany of incidental writings on related subjects. It begins with a tribute to Winston Churchill: "I wonder how many people, when they see that so familiar, endearing, bulky figure on the films or on railway platforms returning from one of his innumerable journeys, think how much of English history is embodied in it?" It ends with a review of three books on England by American writers...
Said one 21-year-old private: "They seem to think us fellows of the 716th [716th Railway Operation Battalion] were the only ones that did anything. That ain't right. All along the line [the railway leading from Cherbourg to Paris] there were any amount of men doing the same thing, maybe on a higher scale...
Whistle Stop. In Wales, when the war time ban on railway-station signs was removed, a stationmaster restored his town's 30-foot long sign: Llanfairpwllgwyngo-gerychrynbwllllandysiliogogogoch...
...personal visit of the head to a class will be an annual event, accompanied by all the ceremonial of a present-time speech day. A tube railway will be needed to connect its sixth-form rooms with the nearest university. The marvelous efficiency of such a school will shriek to high heaven and yet-right glad am I to think that a beneficent providence has ensured that I shall not be called upon to act as the smallest cog in its gargantuan machinery...