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Full House. In Hayward, Calif., Harold Sexton was arrested for overcrowding his taxi. His payload: 18 passengers...
Angry crowds gathered in Dalhousie Square, shouted "Jai Hind!" ("Victory to India"), the battle cry of India's nationalists. They lay across railway tracks to stop trains, persuaded bus, tram, taxi and ricksha drivers to join them, forced shops to close down. They put up road blocks, set afire British and U.S. military vehicles, stoned Tommies and G.I.s, tossed bricks and a hand grenade into the Thanksgiving dance of the American Officers' Club at Karnani Estates. Adding to the city's chaos was a municipal workers' strike (for more wages) which threatened the water supply...
...working night, he and his B.W. (for beautiful wife) get home about 4 a.m. By dawn the doorman of his apartment hotel hails a passing taxi so that Wilson's column can make its 7 a.m. deadline...
...winning numbers, which still correspond to animals, were based on the national lottery's winning tickets, the amount gambled was a hot $500,000. When the nine and two came up, 500 scrupulously honest bicho bankers started paying off on the bear (92) to thousands of businessmen, taxi drivers and maids all over the country who had bet anything from half-a-cent to $250. In Pernambuco, where Russian sympathizers had played the bear, the winnings were heavy...
...Consultation fee of John J. Anthony (formerly Lester Kroll, taxi driver) of radio's Original Good-Will Hour was $25, but people who could not afford the fee might arrange to have their troubles aired over the radio. Mrs. Steiner asked Mr. Anthony his qualifications. He said he had "studied all the psychiatrists' work" and claimed that he had advised Vassar College on an Institute of Marital Relations (which Vassar does not have), and that Princeton had asked him to start an "experimental station." Nowhere to Go. Wherever she went, Mrs. Steiner saw people needing and paying...