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[[newspaper image - black & white photograph of men operating a locomotive engine]]
[[attribution]]David H. Hamley

[[caption]] WITH its 39-year-old IR engine showing a clean stack, Bush Terminal’s No. 5 rumbles across a Brooklyn intersection. Three of the H3-1’s operate on weekdays, but line abandonment threatens. [[/caption]]

The last item I shall cover in this 1931 section is suggested by a diary item dated July 10th. It says that Tom Perkinson and I went down in the elevator that day with Betty Palm, "Burleson's stenographer." This tells me that Whitey Wilson had not yet been made head of the Urban Transit Section but was working for Burleson, my old tormentor on the Northwestern Pacific interurban proposition with Vivian and Charlie Reed in 1928. Whitey's star was rising as Andrews cast a benevolent eye upon him those days but he hadn't yet made the move that was to propel him into the front office eight years later. As for Betty Palm, I'd quite forgotten about her, but this reminds me that she was a thrill to gaze upon-—a small girl with an arresting face and an even more arresting figure, in fact, breathtaking at times according to my diary and all the men gave Burle credit for being a good picker. But Betty was not around for long——presume she got married. 
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