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...Taxi-Ads. In Manhattan last fortnight Adman John H. Livingston Jr. announced that 1,000 taxicabs will soon be equipped with a device to flash a quick-changing series of 22 floodlighted advertising cards before the passenger...
Unlike Skippy's father, Artist Crosby, 39, is minuscule, bellicose. It is legend that half the taxi-drivers and police of Manhattan used to call him by his first name. Last year Artist Crosby bought a full page in the Washington Herald, dealt with Prohibition much as in last week's attack, announced that he had sworn never to drink again "with or without repeal" (TiME...
...Martii Wallenius, former Chief of the Finnish General Staff, and Colonel Kuussaari, head of the Staff's mobilization section. In court last week the prosecutor slid over, the details of the kidnapping attempt, concentrated on the state of Prohibition enforcement in Finland which the evidence brought out. Taxi drivers stationed near the Stahlberg villa told of a mysterious car that had lurked about the neighborhood for several days before the Stahlbergs' abduction, thought that it was a bootlegger making his deliveries. The kidnappers themselves swore that they had received orders from General Wallenius and Colonel Kuussaari, that both...
...taxi to Sweden's Royal Palace last week drove Mr. & Mrs. Sinclair Lewis. The Lord High Chamberlain, Baron Rude-beck, and the First Lady in Waiting, Countess Lewenhaupt led them into an antechamber abuzz with guests. After a pause a silver trumpet sounded. Gustaf V, King of Sweden and of the Goths and Wends entered escorting Princess Ingeborg (his brother Carl's wife, the King of Denmark's sister), followed by the rest of the Royal Family. All Ladies of the Court were in black, for Queen Victoria of Sweden (No. 1 patient of best-selling Memoir-Writer Dr. Axel...
...make people want to hear its nightly continuation and not long enough to let them become bored. Served in a lump, the Gosden-Correll humor is less digestible. Amos & Andy stall their cab on Broadway, carry on business as usual in the barnlike headquarters of the Fresh Air Taxi Company in uptown Manhattan. They go to a meeting of the Mystic Order of the Knights of the Sea, talk to Madame Queen on the telephone, mispronounce words of four or more syllables by the formula of substituting "re" for "dis" as in "regusted," and "ul" for "or" as in "incorpulated...