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Mushroomed Clout. In Milan, Salvatore Cinquegrane, 20, who stepped on a streetcar and squabbled with the conductor, was booked for : 1) not paying, 2 ) hitting the conductor, 3) damaging public property, 4) resisting arrest, 5) disturbing the peace, 6) refusing to identify himself to police, and 7) drunkenness...
...Attorney B. Hayden Crawford charged that Tulsa Tribune Reporter Nolen Bulloch, famed for his exposes of bootlegging and political corruption, had actually for nine years masterminded an underworld ring that smuggled liquor into legally dry Oklahoma (TIME, March 11). Bulloch, roared the prosecutor, was the conductor of "a streetcar named Desire-and the desire was for money." He wanted Reporter Bulloch convicted on a conspiracy charge...
Last week, after seven days of inconclusive, often contradictory testimony from a parade of bootleggers, prostitutes and hoodlums called as government witnesses, Prosecutor Crawford's streetcar was derailed. Without even hearing the defense, U.S. District Judge Royce H. Savage directed a verdict acquitting Bulloch and two other defendants. When the verdict was announced, Reporter Bulloch, 49, who had contended that vengeful racketeers and politicians had tried to frame him, quietly moved from the defendant's bench to the press table, calmly picked up his pencil and paper, and started covering the rest of the case against 17 other...
...Calcutta, where thrifty Bengalis ran wild in 1953 over a ⅓cent rise in streetcar fares, mobs rioted around the post offices when it was discovered that the price of stamps would be rounded off in favor of the government. In industrial Kanpur, bus service was tied up for hours when bus drivers discovered they could not drive and argue about fares at the same time. Mothers fretted that the new coins were too easy for kids to swallow. Even the beggars complained formally that the changeover would cost them profits since passers-by now tossed them a mere naya...
...costumes of silk and velvet . . . identical flowing black ties"). Their quarrels were fiendish. Their cook, looking out of the window at 2 a.m., might descry Mummy, "her pink nightgown streaming behind her, rushing headlong down 97th Street toward Madison, screaming: 'I'll throw myself under the first streetcar!' " One morning, when she appeared with arm in sling, her right eye bruised she explained grandly: "I stumbled over a champagne case in the dark...