Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lead off the discussion, Lester ("Mike") Pearson, Secretary of State for External Affairs, was still in New York, at the United Nations meeting. On his way back to Ottawa he stopped off for the opening of Toronto's Royal Winter Fair. He came into Ottawa on a morning train, having written part of his speech en route; he put the finishing touches to it only a few minutes before Parliament opened...
Cummings, with his ninth straight recording on the turntable, relented. "I never went for Mule Train" he explained mildly. "The only way to get my fans around to my way of thinking was to play the tune to death...
Like disc jockeys the country over, Alan Cummings of Washington's WWDC was snowed under with requests for Mule Train; his listeners could not seem to hear it often enough. Early one morning last week, Cummings struck back: he began playing, one after the other, recordings of Mule Train as sung by Frankie Laine, Bing Crosby, Gordon MacRae, the Syncopators, Buzz Butler, Arthur Smith, Vaughn Monroe and Tennessee Ernie. Before long, the unrelieved barrage of whipcracks and clippity-clops jammed WWDC's switchboard with phone calls from desperate night owls crying "Uncle...
...Protestantism's excessive fragmentation, says Dr. Douglass, is also responsible for a crisis in the theological seminaries. "So long as most of the 250 Protestant denominations try to train their own ministers, the quality of the training must suffer ... Even more serious is the fact that many young ministers are discouraged by the whole pattern of Protestant disunity. They are disheartened at the prospect of starting their life work in a community of competing churches-where there are not enough members of their own denomination to give them a man-sized...
...Harvard last night, Moses' roommate, Gaston H. Palacious '53 said that he had accompanied Moses to Yale in the plane but had returned immediately after the game by train. Palacious said Moses' plane was equipped with complete radio instruments and safety equipment, including a parachute...