Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state. She rode in a parade of automobiles from Atlanta to her home in Albany, and crowds cheered along the way. In her home town, prominent citizens gathered on the stage of the auditorium, whites on the right, Negroes on the left, to pay her honor. Mayor James W. ("Taxi") Smith eulogized her in a short speech...
Like a Board. A lean French Canadian taxi driver, John Lecomte, 36, joined up with his brother-in-law, Einer Frykberg. They left Frykberg's hardware store to his wife, drove Lecomte's taxi in as far as they could, and headed into the bush. Bartender John York hiked 15 miles in & out, then found that he had forgotten to note the numbers of his claim tags. He had to go through it all again...
Great Gate. The day of the funeral, it rained. With admirable restraint, nobody wrote that "Even the skies wept for the Babe"-except the New York Times's Sport Columnist Arthur Daley, who passed off the remark on a defenseless taxi driver. In St. Patrick's Cathedral, Francis Cardinal Spellman presided at a Requiem Mass (attended by 6,000), with Governor Dewey, New York's Mayor O'Dwyer and Boston's Mayor Curley as pallbearers. The press reported that 75,000 people were "in the area," which could be said of Rockefeller Center any weekday...
Jane Cowl, fluttery, hankie-flapping veteran of 37 stage years, who had had some trouble with a backing taxi in Manhattan last winter (broken leg), had more of the same with a station wagon in La Jolla, Calif.; as it rounded a curve she fell out the door, suffered a banged head, cut arm, skinned knee. Two days later she was back at rehearsal for a straw-hat performance of The First Mrs. Fraser...
Soon she was singing in a West End revue, working in a nightspot after the show, and changing costumes in a taxi going from one to the other. Once the taxi was stopped for speeding, she recalls, "and when the bobby looked inside the car, he discovered a naked lady." She married Laughton in 1929, went to Hollywood with...