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After a vacation in Key West, Fla., Playwright Tennessee (A Streetcar Named Desire) Williams passed through an old locale of his, New Orleans, and announced that all his work had resulted in some play. Title of his latest: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...
...Proprieties. In Sydney, Australia, the New South Wales transport department issued 7,000 cut-rate streetcar and bus tickets for children, on each ticket printed the warning: "Do not smoke in a nonsmoking compartment...
...matter how much damage they did, the motormen were protected by their labor contract; the company was bound to pay for their defense. As a result, streetcar crewmen were ordered out of uniform and into civilian clothes so that they could hastily mingle with the crowd and disappear in case of an accident. When they turned themselves in to the cops a few days later, they always had bail money and an amparo (injunction) for a quick release. The crewmen went back to work, and the accident cases usually dragged on to cheap settlements...
Last week, as passengers by the thousands crowded the new streetcars to bounce on the spring-cushioned seats and enjoy the smooth, gliding ride, only a few oldtimers sighed for the cumbersome elegance of the tortugas in their heyday. Then the streetcars were used for fashionable funerals, and the wife of Dictator Porfirio Díaz had her own private streetcar, furnished with silk curtains, revolving osier seats, spittoons and magazine racks...
...last two decades, while in Detroit, the J. L. Hudson Co. expects to lose fully 15% of its business to its new store in its suburban shopping center. To combat such losses, downtown businessmen are offering special lures to shoppers. They hand out cut-rate bus and streetcar tokens, even carry suburbanites to & fro in special buses...