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...Trondheim, Norway has suffered a nervous breakdown and asked permission to retire. Reasons: for months Bishop Lothe has been treated with "icy disdain" by the townspeople; his congregation in Trondheim Cathedral, where he preaches in uniform, has dwindled to a mere handful; soon after he gets on a crowded streetcar he often finds himself the sole occupant...
Helpers. In Washington, D.C., when a streetcar conductor got off briefly to inspect a switch, playful passengers kept him off, took turns playing conductor along the route for 45 minutes before the motorman found...
...When Hamsun worked in Chicago as a streetcar conductor...
Those years were not uniformly dreary. They were warmed by the half-filial, half-erotic friendship of many young men, notably the young Irish streetcar conductor, Peter Doyle. They were cheered by the startling letters of Mrs. Anne Gilchrist. She had read the Leaves and wrote their author: "Nothing in life or death can tear out of my heart the passionate belief that one day I shall hear that voice say to me, 'My mate. The one I so much want. Bride, wife, indissoluble, eternal.' ... O come, come, my darling, look into these eyes and see the long...
...Navy telegram arrived in April: wounded in action. Mr. Geisman is a little sheepish about the way he reacted: he took a streetcar to the Army transport docks, tried to get to the Philippines him self. Says he: "They were nice to me, but they explained that it was doubtful that any boats would be going to Bataan...