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In "Locomotive 38, the Ojibway," Aram makes friends with a local Native American gentleman of that name, helps him buy a car, and becomes his chauffeur for a summer. In "Old Country Advice to the American Traveler," Uncle Melik goes on a railroad trip, and completely disregards all advice given to him by his Uncle Garro, thus having a good time.
William Saroyan [2] (/ s ə ˈ r ɔɪ ə n /; August 31, 1908 – May 18, 1981) was an Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film The Human Comedy .
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories is the first collection of 26 short stories by William Saroyan published in 1934 (Random House).The author was recognized as a "the most widely discussed discovery of 1934" and the book became an immediate bestseller.
His Lordship, Burrell Showman's road locomotive, in the Tom Varley collection. 1970s photo. The first road locomotives started to emerge from the St Nicholas works in the late 1870s, with 14 engines specifically designed for the job of road haulage produced between 1878 and 1890. [17]
The Time of Your Life has been revived three times on Broadway: in 1940 with Dowling and Saroyan directing again, in 1969 directed by John Hirsch and in 1975 directed by Jack O'Brien. The play was revived on March 17, 1972 at the Huntington Hartford Theater in Los Angeles where Henry Fonda , Richard Dreyfuss , Ron Thompson , Gloria Grahame ...
The Time of Your Life is a 1948 American comedy drama film directed by H. C. Potter and starring James Cagney, William Bendix, Wayne Morris and Jeanne Cagney.A Cagney Production, The Time of Your Life was produced by Cagney's brother William and adapted by Nathaniel Curtis from the 1939 William Saroyan play of the same name.
A version was released through Coral at the same time as Clooney's in 1951, performed by the song's composers Bagdasarian and Saroyan. American country-music artist K. T. Oslin covered the song on her 2001 album, Live Close By, Visit Often. Her version reached number 40 on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play charts. It spent six weeks on ...
William Russell Smith (1815–1896), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama (1851–1856) William Rudolph Smith (1787–1868), Attorney General of Wisconsin; William Ruthven Smith (1868–1941), U.S. army officer and Superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy; William R. Smith 4-4-0 locomotive, used for a short portion of the ...