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...that the former Mrs. Adlai Stevenson was a member of the Borden milk family. I believe that her father was John Borden, former taxi magnate and no relation to the Borden milk family...
...Rochester, its first stop, the sleek two-engined Convair was eight minutes late. At Syracuse the snow was heavier and Pilot Thomas J. Reid landed a half hour behind schedule, late enough for Barbara Levy, Syracuse University sophomore. She had kept a taxi standing by while she finished a mid-term exam, had rushed to the Syracuse field to get a quick start on a winter vacation...
...anyone who has been there, seem absurd. No favorable account of Western overtures or conditions can ever reach the Russian public. Furthermore, it is very doubtful whether the Russians are capable of conversion, even if we could reach their ears. All the Russians I met, whether officials or taxi drivers, were quite obviously content under the regime; they spoke with all the enthusiasm, bigotry and simplicity that I imagine made the early Christians so irritating. This attitude is universal; the discontented have long ago been converted or dispatched...
Sleeping Enemies. Then there was Keith M. Beaty, a Charlotte, N.C. taxi-fleet operator, who got Caudle three cars at cut prices, lent him a fourth car and a wad of money. The U.S. has had a $2,400,000 claim for back taxes pending against Beaty and his associates. Caudle said he had disqualified himself from acting in the Beaty tax case. This talk that there was something wrong about the Beaty-Caudle relationship, said Caudle, was inspired by their enemies in North Carolina, where he was once a U.S. district attorney. The last time he was in Charlotte...
There is another distinction between Arno and Price. Price's characters meet some confusing situation and then commment on it. The man standing beside a collapsed taxi and the driver looking at him, plaintively crying. "I ast you not to slam the door," or two ladies in a car watching an escape-car pulling away from a bank robbery and commenting. "Hold it, Grace. There's someone pulling...