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...pocket, and the roughs of his first cartoon, Plane Crazy, were drawn. Plane Crazy, however, was not the first to reach the public. Sound came roaring in just then, and silent pictures silently expired. Walt rushed to New York, recorded sound track for a new Mickey Mouse cartoon called Steamboat Willie, and released it in Manhattan. "It's a wow!" cried one critic after another, and the public came piling in. Man was about to be conquered by a mouse...
Died. John B. (for Blanks) Campbell, 77, racing secretary of New York tracks and nationally famed handicapper; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Son of a Mississippi River steamboat captain, he began handicapping in 1914, worked at virtually every track in the country before settling down in 1935 to placing weights for the 1,500 races a year at New York's four tracks (Aqueduct, Belmont, Jamaica, Saratoga). Blunt, owlish Louisianian Campbell remained blandly unperturbed by owners' and trainers' protests over his weight assignments, calmly pursued the handicapper's dream, i.e., a race so perfectly handicapped...
Opportunities for summer travel are not limited to excursions across the Atlantic, however. For those who like steamboat accomodations that are nearly as expensive, but much easier to get, there are trips to various South American ports. An average fare here is $173, one-way, from Boston to Caracas, Venezuela, for students who prefer to do their traveling on land, and still cover considerable distances, bus companies offer continental tours ranging in price up to $899.92 for a 60-day trip to California and the Canadian Rockies...
While the New Haven fight (see above)
carried off most of the headlines, other spring proxy wars were
bubbling.
...rate cases before the ICC be decided within 60 days. It is also trying to streamline the ICC by eliminating some of its 15 scattered bureaus. To this end. three bureaus were merged into one last week. And it is pressing for the resignation of Democratic Chairman J. Monroe ("Steamboat") Johnson. 75, both for patronage reasons and to put in a younger chairman. So far, Johnson refuses to budge. Actually, Johson is one of the most vigorous and effective men at ICC, within the limitations of the agency's regulations. He can be outspoken when he thinks the railroads...