Well Trained

The month which movie writer Charles A. (Cap) Palmer '23 spent in traveling over the country on fast and slow freight trains and the following month which he spent in getting the cinders and diesel oil out of his hair convinced him that no one who works on the railroad all the livelong day does it just to pass the time awaysong-writers notwithstanding.

"Engineers and railroad workers," he told a Hollywood interviewer upon his return from his background-gathering trip for the new film The RailroadStory, "have a tough life. They are the nicest guys in the world. They fight each other but stand shoulder-to-shoulder for the railroad. Freight trains invariably pull into big cities at 3:00 A.M. and the engineers have to walk two miles to town."

Another assignment which Palmer is not dreading is a trip to New Hampshire, when he will represent the Council of Motion Picture Organizations. The author of many stories appearing in popular magazines, he has edited educational films, written books on a variety of subjects, and in 1949 he was honored for his work on Lost Boundaries, named the Best Screenplay at International Film Festival at Cannes. Case History of a Movie by Dore Schary,as told to Charles Palmer was published in 1950.