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Cautiously Vag started to cross Massachusetts Avenue, then with an air of bravado, he dodged a taxi. A flake of snow hit, him in the eye. Direct hit, he said to himself, and though his eye watered he smiled expansively at nobody and continued across the Yard. Where was he walking to! Didn't he have to see someone at University Hall, or was it Lehman! Well, lot the big boys wait. He was taking a walk to think things over, to sum things up. The happiest days of his life, and perhaps in a way the least useful, that...
...Budd drifted back to obscurity on small stations (from Asbury Park to Miami) and to odd jobs (from taxi driving to soda jerking). Last week he turned up in Buffalo, where he started, to audition...
...tourists with dollars, a drink costs as little as 25? and a five-course dinner only 80?. American cigarettes come to 11? a package, Argentine steak 25? a lb., a taxi ride across town 10?, a shoe shine 1½?. Outside the capital, tourists can live in a first-class hotel for $1.50 a day, with meals...
...stories of a "miracle man" whose blessing cured the sick in mind and body. The healer was a humble parish priest named Padre Antonio Ribeiro Pinto. By last week he had become a national figure. To seek his blessing, thousands of Brazilians were traveling by special train, by chartered taxi and by bus and truck from as far south as Porto Alegre and as far north as Bahía. Reported TIME Correspondent William White, who went to see for himself...
...amazing paradox of "Dark Passage" is that some of the seenes, although destroying the movie, are superb. One incident involving Bogart and a lonely taxi driver has brilliant dialogue and real human feeling. This and the splendid acting of Agues Moorchead as a pestiferous, petulant "femme fatale" give the show its only speed. When Bogart and Miss Bacall get together the picture moves along at a lazy snail's pace. During the last reel the two lovers hike off to Peru, presumably forever. This seems like a very fine idea...