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...Durrance was not content with a single masterpiece: [there were] the leaky balloon; the old streetcar; the stealthy assassin (gurgle and choke); the delayed-action infernal machine; the badgered bear with its refreshing and vigorous variant, the dog with bone . . . [and] the difficult aircraft motif. He flew a four-hour mission, involving several hundred planes...
Harris got the whole city into the act. Last week, the windows of Sherer's department store displayed Russian costumes, handicrafts, Margaret Bourke-White photos of a Russian Woman Shock Brigadier, a Moscow streetcar conductor, Stalin's great-aunt. Worcester's Museum of Natural History put on a show of Russian posters. The Public Library plugged books on Russia. The Art Museum gave a gallery to Marc Chagall, Ossip Zadkine. Boris Grigoriev. Women's clubs listened to talks on Russia; school children heard about Russia, wrote themes on Russia...
Millions of U.S. citizens have heard of her-at second hand. No one ever quite catches her name. She is a large-bosomed, pushing, middle-aged woman, a shade too richly dressed. She has popped up on a streetcar in Schenectady, N.Y., a cocktail bar in Detroit, a bus in Houston, a Manhattan shoestore. She always remarks, in a loud, smug voice, that the war is making her prosperous and she hopes it goes on & on. At this point, a patriotic woman bystander lets go with a well-aimed umbrella, handbag, or whatever is handy...
Bravely the Fitzgerald brothers moved into a city that has seen 41 streetcar companies go broke in 70 years, but still has a trolley system too small for the job. Soon after the turn of the century, 14 different companies were operating in Los Angeles, chiefly as sidelines for real-estate promoters. Their practice was to organize trolley lines from the city to their new subdivisions. Once the lots were sold, the lines went bankrupt...
...Announcer, to a woman streetcar operator: "How about when the men get back? Do you plan to continue on the job?" Woman: "No sirree. . . . It's back home for me to take care of the house and fix some real good dinners...