Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last Tuesday evening, a taxi pulled up to the curb in front of the CRIMSON Building with Myrua Hansen Miss United States and runner-up to Miss Universc. Miss Brannon, Universal-International Studios press agent and travelling companion to Myrna, stepped out and told the driver to wait. He waited for two hours...
...tiptoed down the fire stairs to the ninth floor, then took an elevator to the lobby. He left the hotel, went to the phone booth in an all-night restaurant nearby and dialed a Manhattan number. After a short conversation in Polish, he left the restaurant and hailed a taxi. In this manner, Dr. Marek Korowicz, 50, professor of international law at Cracow University and the top legal adviser to the delegation, made his way out from behind the Iron Curtain...
...Mirror (circ. 902,000) went to work to keep its summer circulation up by paying $25 to $1,000 every day for "Lucky Bucks" (dollar bills which have the same serial number as those printed in the paper-TIME, Aug. 17). Within a week, everyone from bank presidents to taxi drivers as far away as Florida and California was riffling through his dollar bills looking for Lucky Bucks. Manhattan's tabloid Daily News, biggest daily in the U.S. (circ. 2,200,000), eyed the Mirror's stunt coldly. But this week the News, which never admits to following...
...start to taxi back toward the floodlights and hangars-but the entire field ahead is covered with running figures!" Lindbergh was completely unprepared for the crowd of 25,000 that had broken down Le Bourget's fences to greet him. He had rather expected to have to introduce himself...
...visitor gets in a taxi. "Click." Twenty-five cents to start with, and then 30?, 35?, 40?. A few blocks and it's a dollar. He gets out and pays the driver...