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...Carl Sandburg's Chicago, the monthly has struggled along with account books that would never scan. Last July Poetry seemed finally about to die. But last week, in poetry's biggest rescue operation since the Greeks went after Helen, Poetry piled up enough money to buy a carload of shoestrings...
...Harrison often modeled for pictures himself, posing as everything from a white slaver (with pith helmet) to an irate husband spanking his wife. On one project for one of his magazines, Harrison was picked up by New Jersey police (and released) for taking pornographic pictures: he had driven a carload of models to a Jersey golf course and had started taking pictures of them cavorting across the fairways half-nude...
...night last week, more than a carload of human travelers hooted back at Robert R. Young. The occasion was a commuters' meeting in New York's Rockland County to protest Young's plan to stop carrying passengers on the Central's 71-year-old West Shore line. The line meanders 142 miles along the Hudson between Weehawken (N.J.) and Albany (N.Y.), carries 4,000 commuters a day into Manhattan. According to Young, it is losing some $3.000,000 annually on passengers. At the meeting, a young matron strode determinedly onstage carrying a pig labeled "Young...
RAILROAD v. TRUCK battle for freight business will soon be on a more even footing. The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled that current truck rates on less than carload lots throughout the East and Midwest are too low and constitute "destructive competition." ICC has ordered the truckers to boost rates from 16? to 33? per 100 Ibs. to bring them closer into line with railroad charges...
...made nine errors in three innings in his first game, feigned a leg injury to get off the field. The disgusted manager of the team, whose father was a produce dealer, waived Riss to him. He put Riss to work selling a carload of ripe bananas before they spoiled. Riss not only turned in a profit but in a few months was in his own produce business, with a truck and a debt of $1,060. When he made back the $1,060 in 25 days by hauling fruit from orchards and farms, the town's leading produce dealer...