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...Raymond Clapper lived a block apart in Kansas City's (Kan.) packinghouse district. The grocer's daughter and the laborer's son went to the same Sunday school, the same high school. One day when Olive had just turned 17, they kept a date on a streetcar. She told him her father's ultimatum: stop seeing-that Clapper boy, or you'll be sent away to stay with relatives. Said Ray: "Let's get married...
...Money. The daughter of an Irish streetcar conductor, she was ten when she earned her first money (25?) for singing. The stage: a bread box in front of a Philadelphia store. Even then, her voice was hoarse, her hair stringy, her teeth protruding. But the Olney neighborhood liked her. By the time she was 17 she was singing in a Camden, N.J. nightclub, where she earned, as combination hatcheck-girl, vocalist and electrician, about $85 a week. The turning-point in her career came when she met a handsome, liquid-eyed insurance broker named Frank Kinsella...
Smash Hit. In San Francisco, a streetcar crashed with complete abandon into a Navy shore patrol wagon, drew cheers from watching sailors...
...Line. In Baltimore, Trolley Motorwoman Helen C. Matterson sued her motorman husband for divorce after she found him, she said, at a rendezvous with Motorwoman Helen Tafe-in a streetcar...
...name still blazes from the marquee of a Broadway theater. As playgoers queued up there last week for tickets to The Voice of the Turtle, the man whose name was on every ticket lay in a Los Angeles morgue. Morosco had died at 69 under the wheels of a streetcar in the city where he first made good. He was dressed in a threadbare suit. In his pocket was eight cents...