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Mock Sickness. In predawn darkness, hundreds of Philadelphia's streetcar, subway and bus operators clumped into the sprawling, grimy carbarns as usual at 4 a.m. one morning last week. But as they checked in, one after another of them begged off work. They had an agreed excuse: "I'm sick - sick to my stomach." The cause of their mock sickness: eight Negro employes, who had been upgraded to motormen, were scheduled to make their first trial run that morning...
...evacuees from ravaged western Russia (some are going back home now). The life is rougher, tougher than in most cities, but the people work hard, seem happy. Said Works Director Nosov: "Two or three years after the war we will have time to build thousands of new individual homes, streetcar lines, roads, theaters, cinemas, clubs, restaurants." But now-in Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tashkent, Alma-Ata-production for war is all that matters. In the 15 years since Stalin decreed the creation of this industrial reserve in Asiatic Russia, the Soviet Union had achieved neither the capacity nor the efficiency...
Stacked against, the run of U.S. films, Summer Storm is well above the ordinary. Stacked against the kind of European film it is trying to be, it is as distractingly uneven as a ride in a flat-wheeled streetcar. There are moments of remarkable sensitiveness to season, landscape, and the part they can play in creating erotic and moral atmospheres. There are even moments when handsome Linda Darnell embodies the natural force she is portraying. And Edward Everett Horton somehow manages to suggest that a Tsarist rake would look and act like Edward Everett Horton. But too much of Scripter...
Suppressed Desire. In Chicago, Myron Morrison, 14, grabbed the controls of a runaway streetcar when the motorman fainted, shut off the power just as the car headed into a truck, shucked to his admiring passengers: "Shucks, I didn't even get a chance to ring the bell...
...them in five-minute chats. On the Saturday before election he drove an old-fashioned horsecar, drawn by two white horses, for a two-mile trip along Market Street. The car was followed by a modern bus from which a loudspeaker blared: "I've been waiting for a streetcar all the livelong...