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When plays end, Jean would almost rather take a cab than walk even 150 feet, the distance from the Billy Rose Theater to the editorial offices of the New York Herald Tribune. In his cubicle, Walter Kerr has 50 minutes to write. Jean sits near by and reads The Hollywood Reporter, Photoplay, even the scrapbooked reviews of former critics. Only on the way home by train, Walter's carbon in hand, does she begin to discuss the play with him. The talk goes on and on, as it does nearly every night, over several bottles of beer, until...
...Tall. Buntin's minicab, and others like it, are pitted against 6,600 time-tested dinosaurs of the London taxi world. What arouses the ire of the traditional cabbies is that minicabs are operating without taxi licenses and thus can ignore the stringent regulations that made a London cab 1) expensive to build and 2) one of the world's ugliest but most comfortable vehicles. Some of the regulations, as laid down in the ancient Metropolitan Carriage Act of 1869: each cab must be 14 ft. 11 7/16 in. long, big enough to seat five persons comfortably, high...
AIRLINES' BOYCOTT of credit cards, other than their own Universal Air Travel Card, was stopped by CAB. The ruling opens the door to American Express, Diners' Club and Hilton credit cards to sign up 118 airline clients...
FLORIDA-CALIFORNIA air routes were awarded to National and Delta airlines. They were the last of the choice routes CAB had to hand out. National will fly from Miami...
...Merger? When Braniff's competition proved to be small, the truce ended. Grace once again tried to break Pan Am's strangle hold on Panagra's operations. Charging Pan Am "with every conceivable obstructionist tactic," Grace in 1951 petitioned CAB for a Miami tie-up between Panagra and National Airlines. In a bristling counterattack, Pan Am accused Grace of seeking the tie-up only because of its holdings of 174,000 shares of National stock...