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...impress a girl. The investment of $60 for a pair of tickets was considerable (particularly since the show was on theater TV in Brooklyn, and dozens of other places, at $3 a seat). But this was a very special kind of girl, who knew her music. In the jogging taxi, the young man was delighted when she cooed: "I've never been so thrilled in my life...
...above his partners, most of whom are equally competent. On stage, his voice has a nasal quality, however, which mars the doctor's studied urbanity. The only actively offensive character is Susan's husband, played by Charles Boaz, whose simpering description of how to make bumpy love in a taxi-cab reaches some sort of low for the evening...
...memorable, prize-winning picture of a young Negro twisting from the outstretched hands of a priest and plunging to his death 250 ft. below (TIME, March 10, 1952). Last week, cruising in the Mirror's radio car, Wendlinger got word of another suicide attempt. A despondent taxi driver called the paper's news desk and said that he was getting ready to jump off the Manhattan Bridge...
Gottlieb Duttweiler is a single-minded Swiss businessman who has spent the past 29 years working successfully toward one goal: bringing prices down. By steadily undercutting competitors, he has built an $85 million-a-year empire that started out with groceries and now includes taxi fleets, clothing stores, sewing machines and movies. In a nation of enterprising moneymakers, Duttweiler is the most enterprising of all. He is also unique in another way: years ago he gave away most of his wealth to his customers...
...passion for pool and a form of five-card rummy called "Dime Tonk." One night he played pool so intensely that he missed the Barons' bus when the team left for a doubleheader in St. Louis. "A mile or so out of town," says Piper, "here comes a taxi pulling up alongside, honkin' its horn, and Willie jumps out, screamin' like a bird: 'What you gonna do? You gonna leave me? I'm a pro ballplayer here. You can't leave...