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Dpor-to-Door. In Omaha, after breaking into an insurance office, Roy Barkley ran to the street, hailed a taxicab, opened the door, too late discovered that he had Doarded a police patrol...
Hall next attached himself to John Hager, an ex-convict (bad checks) turned taxicab driver and pimp. When the kidnaper gave Hager an $18 tip, the cabbie was elated. "I knew I had a Good-Time Charl'e." he gloated. He took Hall to a hefty (176 Ibs.), blonde prostitute named Sandy O'Day, and the three drove to a motor court near St. Louis. Hall tossed $2,480 onto the bed for Hager who counted it and announced the total. Hall, to make it a round figure, added $20. Next morning Hager returned to the motel...
Impatient Patient. How ill was Sir Winston? Having survived front-line skirmishes and capture in the Boer War. three serious bouts with pneumonia, a collision with a New York taxicab (in 1931), not to mention most of the 20th century's great military and political crises, he apparently was not taking his illness too seriously. He had to be bulldozed into taking a rest at his country home. Chartwell, and, on his very first weekend there, presided over a jolly luncheon party which included Lord Beaverbrook. "Well, at least I've pushed that fellow Christie off the front...
...Shift. In Chicago, Mrs. Violet Fine gave birth to a baby girl in a taxicab on the way to the hospital, said she had phoned for the cab instead of waking up her cab-driver husband because he works at night, and "I hated to disturb...
...onerous purchase tax. The levy on furs, jewelry, cosmetics and similar luxuries dropped from 100% to 75%; for automobiles, vacuum cleaners and the like, from 66.6% to 50%; for carpets, linoleum, domestic hardware, clocks, watches, toys, etc., from 33.3% to 25%. To halt the disappearance of the London taxicab (TIME, April 20), the heavy purchase tax for London cabs was abolished. ¶ Discontinued: entertainment taxes on amateur theatricals, amateur sporting events and professional cricket matches. "In this country, cricket occupies a special place among sports, not only as forming part of the English tradition, but as a common interest helping...