Word: subway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ford Theater (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS-TV). Ian Keith in Subway Express...
...freshman's date for the Jubilee Weekend, upset by a lovers' quarrel, tried to kill herself at 12:50 a.m. yesterday by leaping onto the subway tracks in the Square terminal. She was saved because she jumped behind a train which had just stopped, apparently thinking it was the front of a train just arriving...
According to police, the girl was left in a parked car by her date, who went into a nearby store. While he was gone, she hastily scribbled a suicide note, left it in the car, and dashed for the subway kiosk...
Docile Manhattanites, who put up with soot, noise, water shortages, snarled traffic and the subway rush hour, generally accepted their new ordeal philosophically. Tenants stopped to chat with the strikers, who wanted their work-week reduced from 48 to 40 hours, and $2.75 a week more for it. The landlords chatted with each other. They claimed that they were going broke, that they could not afford any added expenses unless there was an end to rent control. Their stand endeared them to neither the 12,000 strikers nor the tenants...
...some recent French broadcasts (generally, the French desk is one of the Voice's best) which tried to show that Americans are really very cultured. The French Voice recently remarked in dead earnest, upon the publication in the U.S. of a new book on Marcel Proust: "In the subway and on buses, you constantly meet workers and employees, men and women, on their way to and from work, devouring The Guermantes Way and The Past Recaptured...