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...neither bad nor good but bored and alone, who meets two sisters, both whores, in a bar. The older sister balks at taking the young man back to her home ("Home is a sacred place," she says) and agrees only after a promise of additional lire. But during the tram ride to their destination, the younger girl chatters bawdily about her trade. When they reach home, the older prostitute angrily accuses the younger one of shaming her in front of her neighbors on the tram. The party breaks up. A little disappointed, but not much affected by the uproar...
Elliott finished the half in 1:59.3. The pace setters faded, and Delany's bobbing stride began to break apart. He looked more and more like a man in a bowler hat trying to catch a tram. Tabori came on to make a brief challenge, but Elliott stayed in command. He had no noticeable finishing kick; he merely ran fast all the way. Coach Cerutty stood at the head of the stretch wildly waving a towel, the signal that there was a chance to break the world's record (3:58). As usual, Herb Elliott's competition...
...greens, but his body sway on the tee leads to flubs, which Frequent Partner Dwight Eisenhower calls "Hagerty Drives"). Hagerty was genuinely fond of Willkie. But his memories of the mismanaged Willkie train make White House Press Secretary Jim Hagerty, who has come to know more about running a tram than most railroad presidents, writhe in professional pain. The Willkie train often pulled out of wayside stations with reporters still standing on the tracks, and Wendell Willkie, thinking they were voters, waved farewell from the rear platform. When Jim Hagerty was press secretary to Tom Dewey a few years later...
...over by a tram...
...there is humor too-often right in the midst of misfortune, as in what might be called "Coming Home from the Funeral." And there is small-boy adventure, whether with girls or tram rides or being sent to the tobacconist's for "an ounce of Cavendish cut-plug." O'Casey everywhere respects the dignity of childhood as a full existence in itself, as he recaptures a boy's hazy sense that a world offered by Victorian grownups as square is, all the same round...