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Aficionado. In Paris, Cab Driver Andre Daniel was sentenced to an eight-month prison term despite his explanation that he stole five cabs in one week only out of "love for the taxicab business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 12, 1956 | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

Unfinished Business. In St. Paul, Dave Williams and Willard Brazil were rearrested when, cleared of auto-theft charges, they walked out of the city police station, stole a taxicab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 20, 1956 | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

...finally got the attention of the head waiter and when Sherwood explained to him that a valuable, original manuscript had probably been left in a taxi, the waiter said, in a very calm voice: "I wouldn't worry, sir. Nobody ever loses anything in a London taxicab." He was right. The script was back at Sherwood's hotel, the following morning...

Author: By Samuel P. Sears, | Title: Sherwood: Memories Of His College Days | 2/10/1956 | See Source »

Eugenie's captor hauled his prize ashore, propped her up in a taxicab and trundled her through his village as a curiosity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Original Mermaid | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

After her parents' divorce, pretty Angeline and her mother stayed in Pittsburg, where Ethel Crowell (who was also a pretty blonde) taught social science in the high school, and was married and divorced a second time. During the Depression, Mrs. Crowell operated a four-hack taxicab company in Kansas City, and she and her daughter lived in a shabby apartment back of the taxicab office. Angeline was "shy and insecure," according to a cousin, and had one ambition that amounted to an obsession: to go to Hollywood and become a film star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Girl from Kansas | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

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