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...Hard to Earn. Some of Rimrock Annie's settlements seemed hard earned. Over the years, she claims she has had more than 40 spinal punctures because of her faked skull fractures. Once, in the rest room of the Pacific Greyhound Bus Line in Reno, she apparently took a too realistic spill on her head. She regained consciousness in a hospital. A neurologist, called in on the case, looked her over and ordered a brain operation. Some bone was removed, and she lay close to death for days. For this ordeal she collected her biggest claim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Tumbler | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

...contributors also appear on the University books. The Elks gave Harvard $250 scholarships; the Massasolt Greyhound Association gave the Department of Legal Medicine $1,000; and donations also came from the Champion Spark Plug Company, Swift and Company, National Biscuit Company, and Gillette Safety Razor Company...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Given Odd Gifts, Funds for Greek Students | 10/25/1950 | See Source »

...Filene's bargain basement are almost as traditional as baked beans on Saturday night. Last week Wm. Filene's Sons Co. decided to improve on the tradition and bring the bargain basement to the customers. The store installed 14 custom-made coin vending machines in a new Greyhound bus terminal, to sell 20 different items ranging from a baby's rattle (75?) to men's & women's underwear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Out of the Basement | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...world and their first happiness in it. Only rarely, e.g., in a morning shot of Cathy purring glamorously in bed, do they act in tried and untrue Hollywood style. As usual in a cross-country chase, the movie spots its young folks in a grubby motel, a Greyhound bus and a cabaret, but They Live by Night handles them with realistic kid gloves. Cathy sometimes combs a too-pretty hairdo, but mostly the pair act like nice, believable high-school kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...Greyhound Bus Lines reported that coaches for the Yale game had already been hired by the University Travel Service and by the Band. It will also run buses to New Haven every hour on the hour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Partisans Follow Team By Plane, Train, Auto, Bus | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

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