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Stranded Passengers. Juan Chicoy and his sharp-tongued, sluttish wife, Alice, ran a restaurant, filling station and garage at Rebel Corners. Once a day, Juan in his bus, Sweetheart, shuttled Greyhound bus passengers from one main north-south highway to another. Juan was a dark and sinewy Irish-Mexican whom his wife loved passionately and feared a little "because he was a man, and there aren't very many of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Repent! | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

Snowstorms in Connecticut and other northeastern states snarled traffic last night as the Greyhound Bus Company announced that busses from New York and western points were arriving in Boston as much as two hours late...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Planes Grounded as Weather Slows All Rail, Highway Travel | 12/21/1946 | See Source »

...Greyhound Bus Lines expect to be able to handle everyone who needs transportation, an official announced, adding that there was "no unusual demand." The Quaker City Bus Company, which runs one bus a day to New York, still has seats, and the MacKenzie Coach Lines also has accomodations available...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Record Crowds Jam All Rail, Air Facilities; Reservations Sold Out | 12/14/1946 | See Source »

...week, singing Embraceable You and I'll Never Smile Again. Says she: "I spent most of the time thinking up clever ways to lie down in a Greyhound bus." On one-night stands, she sometimes traveled 500 miles with her hair in pin curls and her evening dress over her arm so it wouldn't get mussed. The trick was to arrive in a town at 7 p.m., get your dress pressed and your hair fixed, and look fresh by 9 p.m. She thinks the training was tough but good: "If you can sing on one-night stands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Girlish Voice | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

Wrong Bus. In Pittsburgh, officials of the American Bus Lines ordered summary removal of the latest addition to the terminal's jukebox: Love on a Greyhound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 24, 1946 | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

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