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...British Poet W. H. Auden and a 23-year-old New Jersey taxi driver named George Zabriskie. who has published a volume of poems (The Mind's Geography) ; to write poetry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Guggenheim Fellows | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

...camelback" for use in recapping, either, except for a few "essential" autos. But you still have your old tires. Well, maybe-but Leon Henderson hinted last week that the U.S. might requisition tires from private cars to keep doctors, police, defense workers rolling. Well, you can take a taxi. No-taxi tires wear out too"; taximen predicted they'd be off the streets in a few months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blind Alleys | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

...figures-but the Army does not know where they are. The Army knows where lots of other professionals are: with its punched index cards, all the Army has to do is to pour cards into a machine and push a button: out comes a list of ex-cooks, ex-taxi drivers, or ex-engineers, as required. But not newsmen. Their talents had not seemed useful enough for separate classification. The thousands of them already in uniform were, so far as the Army was concerned, lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mechanical Brain Trouble | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

Trend. In Boston, a taxi driver applied for a license to operate horse-drawn hacks and sleighs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 16, 1942 | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

...Rock, the most nearly immaculate story in the book, a decent young man betrays all human decency under wifely pressure, in his responsibility as witness of a street fight between a gangster and a proud little taxi driver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Medium Rare | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

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