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Last month Editor Hugh Alwyn Inness Brown of Taxi Weekly, Manhattan, returned from a business trip, was greeted by a process server, shown a copy of the paper published in his absence. Pop-eyed with amazement Editor Brown flipped pages to "The Coffee Pot," a colyum conducted by Hackman Otto Lewis. This is what he read: "The MEANEST RIDER! He rides from Jackson Heights to 52d street & 6th Ave. Just an old grouch as mean as he looks and he looks terrible. Grumbles from the minute he enters your cab until he pays you the exact fare...
...Medieval "trial by ordeal" was administered to persons of every class, from queens to scullery maids. Thus Queen Emma, mother of Edward the Confessor, walked barefooted and unharmed over nine red hot ploughshares to prove that she had not committed adultery with the holy Alwyn, Bishop of Winchester. Women suspected of being witches were stripped naked and "cross bound" (the right thumb being tied to the left toe, and the left thumb to the right toe), whereupon they were thrown into water, and sank if innocent. British humanitarian, Archbishop Hincmar, dates from the ninth century the notable reform...
ELIZABETH ALWYN CORTLAND...
...Kneisel Quartet, assisted by Mr. Alwyn Schroeder, will give its sixth and last concert of the season in the Fogg Lecture Room at 8 o'clock this evening. The programme is as follows: Dittersdorf, quartet in E flat; Bach, Three Dances, Cello solo by Mr. Schroeder; Beethoven, quartet in E minor...