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...driver fell asleep at the wheel and smashed into a streetcar. Adenauer's face was badly injured, still bears scars. While he was still in the hospital, Cologne's mayor died, and a delegation of the city council dropped in to inform Adenauer of the news. "They sent a delegation," Adenauer grins, "because they had heard of my severe head injuries. They wanted to make sure I was still normal." Satisfied that he was, the city council elected him mayor...
...World. In Blackpool, England, Violet Brindle protested that, in an effort to make her quit her job as a streetcar conductor, her husband had 1) blocked her trolley line by haranguing a crowd about his troubles, 2) burned the skirt of her conductor's uniform, 3) burned the supper peas...
...staged them: Elia Kazan and Joshua Logan. Director Logan, with an unbroken string of hits (Annie Get Your Gun, Happy Birthday, John Loves Mary, Mister Roberts, South Pacific) was easily Broadway's cleverest theater mind; Director Kazan, with three successive Critics' Circle awards (All My Sons, A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman) stood forth as more truly perceptive, and accordingly stood first...
...Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams' vivid chronicle of a nymphomaniac's downhill flight from reality (TIME...
...amiable Roland J. Brand, 57, is out of bed by 4:15 a.m. He walks his Doberman pinscher for half an hour, gulps his breakfast (nothing but cold black coffee), picks up a couple of sandwiches that his wife has made for his lunch, and catches the 5:10 streetcar from his home in West Allis, a Milwaukee suburb. From 6:20 a.m. until 3 p.m. Brand works at a job which many people would call tough, unpleasant and underpaid...