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...brakes. Busiest cable car is the Powell Street line, starting on a turntable where Powell joins Market Street, San Francisco's "main stem." Passengers scurry for seats while the gripman and conductor swing the tiny car on the turntable until it faces uphill. Then with a great clanking (gripmen traditionally play tunes on their gongs) the car rolls up the sharp grade, past the swank Fairmont and Mark Hopkins Hotels while the conductor collects 5?-fares (conductors traditionally make wisecracks. Sample: "Conductor, do you stop at the Fairmont?" "Gosh no, lady, not on my pay."). Down one side...
...Bosh" it was. The Black Hole was photographed in less than five hours at a cost of about $2,500. Items: 146 extras @ $7.50 per day, $1,095; three cameramen, crew of 60 gripmen. electricians, property men-total wages $1,500. The replica of the Black Hole was a boxlike structure built on an ordinary sound stage. In succumbing to what Producer Darryl Zanuck calls "pressagent bookkeeping," TIME was joined by many a columnist...
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