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...city in the U.S. has a more rattletrap public transportation system than Chicago. Its streetcars, owned by four different companies (all bankrupt) and operated by a fifth, are mostly high-riding "antediluvian arks." Wooden coaches of the McKinley era still clatter around the Loop's rickety elevated lines (also operated by a bankrupt company). On streetcars and El trains alike, lurching is continual, overcrowding chronic and wrecks frequent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Millennium for Straphangers | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...hair was red for many years. I was kind to it, kept it trimmed and perfumed, slept with it, always had it on top. Yet, with all my kindness, love and affection for it, it deserted me-turned . . . traitor. It is now as white as the peaks of Mt. McKinley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Statecraft | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

...colleagues' handy reference. A little more than a century later only the Librarian himself knew how to find the one million ill-catalogued books, and accounts were short $30,000 because a stack of uncashed money orders had been temporarily lost in the piles. That was when President McKinley picked a scholarly lawyer-librarian named Herbert Putnam to straighten things out. This week, eight Presidents later, Librarian Emeritus Putnam at 85 still showed up every day at the office, though first Archibald MacLeish (in 1939) and then Evans (in 1945) had taken over the main...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Crisis in Crates | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

Summer vacation will find the Harvard Mountaineering Club in the midst of an active schedule of climbs, featuring an ascent of Mount McKinley, led by H. Bradford Watson, Jr. '33, the Club's newly-elected executive board has announced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HMC Plans Climb Of Mt. McKinley | 5/3/1947 | See Source »

...LIFE OF EDWARD FITZGERALD -Alfred McKinley Terhune-Yale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Translator of the Rubaiyat | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

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