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...year on the ranch,. Virginia Ewing Gates left a cowhand holding her horse, hiked off. Announced her father, positively: "She is motoring home." Last week, clad in white slacks and a man's shirt, Daughter Virginia hitchhiked into Boise, Idaho, with one Dan McCafferty, onetime wrestler, mechanic and taxi driver. Her story...
Fourth night of the new order Leslie Hore-Belisha spent driving up & down the streets of London with his ears pricked. He was delighted. Even taxi queues at the theatres were hootless. Home to a bath and breakfast, he announced to the Press that effective Sept. 16 the hootless night will be extended to all London and other urban areas throughout Britain. Explained...
...misty past when the Vagabond made his first trip to Cambridge. As inaccurate as the catalogue estimates of laboratory hours. Twelve minutes to find the subway steps from the train concourse and twelve more underground totalled twenty-four. Then there were the fourteen minutes consumed by the taxi driver in taking the Vagabond from Harvard Square to Smith Halls (obs.) via Shady Hill. Total, thirty-eight minute. Thirty-eight. Nineteen hundred thirty eight, class of. Incredible...
...Davis), the waitress who turns prostitute before her death from tuberculosis. The first time Philip and Mildred go out together, he gayly buys a bottle of champagne. When she leaves him for Emil Miller (Alan Hale) he follows them to a theatre, watches them drive off together in a taxi. When she comes back for the second time after a Paris jaunt with his fellow medical student (Reginald Denny), she moves into Philip's rooms. Audiences in Manhattan last week were sufficiently impressed to applaud when Philip finally finds Mildred horrible enough to say calmly: "You disgust me!" Enraged...
...record of this course broken. And today both crews broke it. Simply splendid! Splendid!" Six Williams students chartered a 40-ft. yawl, Cumberbunce II. The night after the race they found Cumberbunce II stranded 500 ft. from her moorings. When one of them hired a water taxi and tried to get aboard, a man with a revolver ordered him off, ordered the taxi to tow him out of the harbor, and then put off into Long Island Sound on Cumberbunce II. Authorities started a search for the first pirate on the Atlantic Coast since 1819, when five were hanged...