Offstage, George Carlin is not a funny man. “I am not a compulsive performer,” said Carlin, from his home in Los Angeles. “There are a lot of comedians who have to be on all the time-joking with you.

My job as a conductor on the Cog Railway probably provided the most interesting fodder for this column. I like this next tale that comes from that time. In the old days, a passenger train had several ...

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Mr. Conductor's Thomas Tales was a spin-off series of Shining Time Station. The plotlines, secondary to the five stories told by George Carlin in each episode, focused solely on Mr. Conductor. The ...

WITH a Puccini revival and a new German conductor, the Metropolitan is under way—as you may have guessed from observing the crowds that arrive in West Thirty-ninth Street nightly at about 8:45 to hear ...