Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army and Cornell will hear the University Band this season after all. By a unanimous vote last night, the 127 members of "the best in the business" decided that three cheap bus trips were better than one deluxe rail junket and thereby assured Cadets and Ithacans of a chance to near "Wintergreen" on a Saturday afternoon...
Previously scheduled to make only one trip this year--that by train to Princeton--one of the largest bands in Harvard's history decided that sleeping in a bus is a small enough sacrifice to take the field before the Army Band and to play above Cayuga's Waters...
...Transport Workers' President Mike Quill, who had already led 40,000 of Manhattan's subway, bus and elevated operators out of the Communist-dominated Greater New York C.I.O. Council, locked horns with his own Communist-dominated international executive board. When the board refused to endorse Harry Truman, Mike countered by kicking out smart, swarthy Harry Sacher as lawyer ($6,000 a year) for T.W.U.'s Local 100. Said Quill: "He is a conniving member of the Communist Party and he has connived with the party to wreck the union. Sacher has an ego like a peacock...
...regular user of the New Orleans Public Library is a woman who lives among the crab and shrimp fishermen near Lake Pontchartrain. Every two weeks, she hops aboard a bus, rides seven miles to the library, fills her shopping bag with books, and rides home again...
Next to London's weather, the thing that bothered Californians most was the look on Londoners' faces; to West Coasters they seemed vaguely uninterested in life. One night on a London bus, a Los Angeles miler turned a somersault and hung upside down from two straps. "It worked," he boasted later. "Their mouths dropped open all the way down to their knees...