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...emerge naturally out of the biographical narrative. Whenever Kaplan does choose to intervene, he enhances his portrait with appropriate comparisions, or soft-spoken but astute analysis. In one case, Kaplan contrasts a friendship between Whitman and an intimate acquaintance, Peter Doyle, to Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in the cabmen's shelter in Ulysses, and Nathanial West's own "Peter Doyle" holding hands with Miss Lonely hearts at a speakeasy...
Last week the desperate regular cabmen swooped down on another minicab, again in Belgrave Square. But Owner Tom Sylvester is buying 75 more Fiats to add to the 25 he already has. In suburban Wimbledon, a fleet of minicabs is being expanded to 50. And canny Michael Gotla has placed an order for 800 Renault Dauphines that will be cruising the streets of London before the end of the year...
Above the green woods and fields of Maryland the sunny, early evening sky was cloudless and clear. From their DC-3, Civil Aeronautics Board inspectors watched Eastern Airlines' Miami-bound plane pass their slower craft and wing majestically down the airway to the south. The CABmen were flying back to Washington from LaGuardia Field after investigating the worst disaster in the history of U.S. civil aviation (see below). The plane that had just passed was doomed to figure in an even more horrible...
...while the CABmen watched with narrowed eyes, the DC-4 suddenly lurched and headed for the ground, 4,000 feet below. People on the ground heard an ear-shattering roar from its engines. The doomed plane's drunken glide steepened into a dive. From the vertical it went slightly on to its back, completing part of a wide outside loop. From the CAB plane, the inspectors saw it plunge into a clump of trees, disintegrate in a great cloud of smoke and flying debris...
...When CABmen got to Lisbon, Rod Sullivan tried to help them solve the mystery of the crash. But he could not understand what had happened. The plane, he said, had suddenly gone into a steep dive. He had pulled the throttles, turned to make an emergency landing. He agreed that a better remedy would have been to increase power to pull the plane out of its unusual attitude. He could not say why he had not done...