Word: streetcars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago, the story goes, an M.I.T. undergraduate boarded a streetcar and asked the motorman to change a five-dollar bill. Meanwhile several of his friends welded the lead wheels of the car to the track, in an experimental application of thermite welding...
...Streetcar Named Desire rumbled into Manhattan's City Center with Tallulah Bankhead on board. On hand to greet it were a good many first-nighters who plainly expected Alabama Bankhead's playing to make a comic football of Tennessee Williams' play. They could not have been more wrong; it was the audience that acted up, not the star...
Gasping and guffawing, Miami playgoers were watching reckless-driving Actress Tallulah Bankhead run A Streetcar Named Desire completely off its trolley. In the role of beaten, world-weary Blanche Dubois, Tallulah was heartily playing Tallulah. She roared over the boards, always managed to be upstage, downed her onstage liquor as if it were the real stuff, generally hammed her way through the part in a spirit of riotous deviltry. In the play's climactic scene, where the script calls for Blanche to be set up for a rape by brutish Stanley Kowalski, most viewers feared for poor Kowalski...
Dark Victory. In Brisbane, Australia, William Young was fined $33 after he flew into a rage when a streetcar passed him by, chased the car in a cab, hopped aboard, punched the conductor in the nose as he shouted: "This will teach you to wait...
After he had piled up millions in San Francisco real estate, Reese still refused to pay a nickel for a streetcar ride and thought 25? too much for a dinner. A contemporary described him sitting in his shabby office, "before him a large pile of $1,000 U.S. Government bonds, and he was clipping off the coupons. That face! Like a hungry boy taking into his mouth a ripe cherry, or a mother gazing down into the face of her pretty sleeping child." To a Methodist preacher, Reese once said: "My love of money is a sort of insanity...