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...photographer must be able to handle cameras varying from a vest pocket size to those carried most conveniently in a taxi, but besides nimble fingers he must possess a glib tongue with which to persuade prospective victims to pose for him. In short, press photography is the art of telling a news story in pictures...
Other aristocratic records were ready to fall. One afternoon William Pinckley, stalwart (6 ft.-2 in.) deputy marshal, rode up Fifth Avenue in a taxi and descended before a supersmart apartment house at No. 2 East 70th St. He ascended to the seventh floor and announced he had a warrant to serve on Joseph Wright Harriman, Esq. Two starched trained nurses fell upon him. Five minutes later Mr. Pinckley was riding down Fifth Avenue to tell his superior that Mr. Harriman would die if arrested...
...Havana Leopoldo Fernandez Ros strolled to the corner with a friend to get a taxi. Senor Ros, once teacher of geography and history in the Havana High School, newspaper director and censor, was well known as organizer of President Machado's ruffianly strong-arm squad, the "Partida de la Porra" (Party of the Bludgeon). What he got was no taxi. A green automobile swung in to the curb. Somebody fired both barrels of a sawed-off shotgun. Sixteen slugs plowed through his chest, killed him instantly. One of the first at the scene of the assassination was Brigadier Antonio...
Strolling with his Detective-Secretary Lawrence Richey for the first time in four years without secret service agents, Citizen Herbert Hoover found much to interest him. A taxi driver offered them a free ride anywhere. "You know," said Secretary Richey, "we had not had a chance to go out and see the town. . . . Many of the old mansions that he knew have gone. We looked at the Rockefeller Center Development...
...George's gags a crash of silence, roared at Grade's twittery voice, her air of blissful inanity. They promptly changed places. Three years later in Cleveland George Burns and Gracie Allen were married by a peace justice who was in a hurry to go fishing. Their taxi ticked up only 15? waiting time...