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...station WODA (Paterson, N.J.), called the combination station WNEW. As WNEW's president, Broadcaster Biow infused the station with his own nervous vitality, put it on a 24-hour broadcasting day. A tireless dispenser of night-time recorded music, it is a great favorite with Manhattan's taxi drivers...
When her father left one day to visit his tobacco farm, Lulu Belle slipped Jim the keys. He let out his pal, Bill ("Bad Eye") Wilson. They grabbed Jailer Kimel's gun from his office, commandeered a taxi, bound and gagged the driver, Wilkes Swing, and drove to Godwin's home in High Point for clothes and another...
...once more. It made him think of the distant days when he first made the voyage through Mem Hall--learning how to sign his name on the way, signing up for all the periodicals. He remembered his initial trip across the Square, how he had wanted to take a taxi back to the Yard; he recalled the sign he'd put on his door warning solicitors of his full contentment. He signed as he thought of the first time he had heard the sound three trolley cars make when on their way to bed together; of the last vestiges...
...with freshly painted oar and bright red cushions, a gondola owned by the late Prince Alexis Mdivani was auctioned off in Venice. Price: $80. Purchaser: the Prince's sister, Señora José Maria Sert, who overbid a gondolier who wanted to use it as a taxi. Mdivani's onetime wife, Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow, was loafing at nearby Lido...
...money would be payable in $1 warrants, which would be annually "self liquidating" because whoever has one in his possession any Thursday in the year must affix a special 2? stamp to it. Treasurer of the Petition Campaign Committee sponsoring the plan is freckled Len R. Reynolds, onetime taxi driver turned firebrand. Last week, Treasurer Reynolds' receipts were estimated...