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...your issue of Feb. 19 under Medicine, you publish an article about a man who asked a taxi driver to take him to Bellevue Hospital; the refusal of the nurse on duty to admit the man unless accompanied by a policeman, in spite of the fact that the taximan informed her that the man was apparently dying; the drive to a police station on the later advice of a policeman; and the death of the taximan's passenger before an ambulance came to the police station...
Riding in a taxi at midnight, Columnist Walter Winchell (who since he was once threatened by gangsters has a permit to carry a gun) saw a policeman blazing away at three bandits who had held up a mid-Manhattan bar. Drawing his gun he jumped from the cab. joined the chase. No hits, no captures. Wrote he in the Sunday Mirror: "The cabbie who picked up two guys on Central Park West didn't get his fare. ... If he will contact...
Profits from the Student Union Dramatic Club production of "Waiting for Lefty" and "The Fall of the City" will also be added to the fund. Contacts will be made today with the Sailors. Garment-Workers, Waitress, and Taxi-Drivers unions in an effort to sell blocks of tickets to the play...
...uncle in the Army who needs cigarets, socks, a sweater, favorite articles of food, regular letters of affectionate encouragement and such efforts as she can make toward attending to his neglected affairs. Thousands of French women are holding their husbands' jobs today as bus conductors, mail carriers, taxi drivers, and in stores and factories...
Fleischman, along with other undergraduates from Harvard, Radcliffe, and Wellesley, was an active supporter of the taxi strike here last spring. The cabbies were holding out for a living wage of $15 and a ten hour day. After five weeks the dispute was settled in their favor...