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...trying to cut passenger traffic. The New York Public Service Commission reported last week that the New York Central had deliberately left trains out of a timetable, presumably to discourage patronage. And though passenger traffic losses are accurately recorded under the bookkeeping system approved by the ICC, many experts quarrel with the system. They argue that losses are actually far less, simply because the passenger business, only 7% of overall rail business, carries too big a share of overall costs...
...raucous underside of London. Hogarth painted The Painter and His Pug as an unframed self-portrait, propped up by volumes of Shakespeare, Swift and Milton, and intended it to be used as the frontispiece for his collected engraved works. Later, after he engaged in a ferocious political quarrel with John Wilkes and Charles Churchill (no kin), Hogarth issued a fresh impression. In it his portrait was replaced by a vitriolic caricature of "Bruiser" Churchill, drawn to look like a Russian bear...
...French. The implication was clear. Two years later, ostensibly charged with wounding Rimbaud with a pistol during a quarrel, but in effect charged with homosexuality, Verlaine was sentenced to two years' imprisonment at hard labor. Later a Paris court awarded Mathilde a separation decree. These catastrophes, in the opinion of British Biographers Lawrence and Elisabeth Hanson, proved the making of Verlaine. Stripped of both wife and friend, he went straight to the prison chaplain, asked to be received back into the church. He "happily began to write religious poems" and, on his release from prison, lived for years without...
...advancement of his career (as distinguished from that of my former son-in-law [Producer] David O. Selznick, who never requested assistance from me) in the motion picture industry." Some Hollywood historians surmised last week that there was another motive. Back in 1952, Ikeman Mayer had a bitter quarrel with Edith and Bill Goetz, both Stevenson supporters. He preserved his wrath, never forgave or forgot their disobedience to his patriarchal wishes...
...courseless senior year, but now their emphasis seems to be on more and more requirements. The aim of such plans as qualifying examinations, required tutorial as a fourth course, is not requirements for their own sake, of course, but greater difficulty and prestige for honors work. One cannot quarrel with this goal, but the means by which some would attain it are alarming...