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Chubby (George) Orson Welles, whose radio play War of the Worlds convinced many Jerseyites that Martians had captured Newark Airport, arrived there on a garbage truck after the taxi taking him to his plane broke down. Grateful for the ride, Bogeyman Welles cleaned up an old joke and remarked: "The driver was decent enough. When someone asked him what he had aboard, he said 'Actors and garbage.' That gave us top billing...
Last week a prime example of Perth Control got by the British censors. A correspondent reported that he had spent ten shillings in taxi fares tracking down the famed pamphlets scattered by the Royal Air Force back of the German lines. He found them finally in the Division of Enemy Propaganda. When he asked for a copy, a pompous official said: "Impossible." Reason: "such intelligence might reach enemy hands...
...patriotically investing in Government bonds. Other, luckier maidens, steal at dusk to vantage points near geisha-houses, machiai (waiting-houses) and licensed prostitute quarters, and there scribble down the automobile license plates of bloods who waste their money during the national emergency. Sometimes, when the young scalawags arrive by taxi, the guardians of national thrift have to slip right inside the house to get a good look at who is misbehaving-and for how much...
Tony Stralla boasted that his boat was safe, his games honest, his service perfection. For 25? you could ride out in a water taxi and gamble 24 hours per day (the return trip was free). He advertised in Los Angeles newspapers and with skywriting. Customers swarmed out to him this season by thousands...
...principals. Cinemactors Cagney and Raft, the screen's two deadliest Ruffie MacTuffies, have been friends ever since they began their careers as vaudeville hoofers in Manhattan in the 205. Cagney was responsible for one of Raft's earliest cinema parts, a dancing bit in Cagney's Taxi. Their appropriate reunion, also celebrating their return to the gangster movies where they belong, is a fierce slugfest in handcuffs...