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That, however, was just a shakedown cruise. This year Sten had hoped to sail to the U.S.,* but he found it hard to raise the money. He settled for Rotterdam. Three weeks ago, with a crew of 15 stalwart young Swedish tram conductors, miners, plumbers, bakers and clerks to man the oars, the 80-foot Lusty Snake set off across the Baltic for the Kiel Canal...
...politics. He appeared at a third-floor window and cried: "We ask the gendarmes to retire. This is a legal demonstration. Gendarmes have no business here." Coatless and bareheaded, Spaak led a parade of his belligerent followers through the city. The crowd noticed a repairman on top of a tram whose guide rope had been torn down by demonstrators. "Come down off that tram and we'll take care of you, you lousy scab!" yelled a red-scarved striker. Another scrambled to the tram top. While thousands watched, the Leopoldist and anti-Leopoldist squared off, pummeled each other...
Truth. "[After signing an agreement to spy on the Americans], I was led out of the building, and left in a very friendly manner in front of the tram stop . . . Got home, washed, opened a can of sausage with some red wine, and went...
...could look back upon a not very tidy but far from untalented season. Indeed, 1948-49 had its genuine high points-even moments when it did not seem like Broadway. Shifting and swerving, it was a season, to misquote the old limerick, that ran like a bus, not a tram...
...newcomer. There were livelier greetings. Britons everywhere toasted the royal couple. In Tokyo, the British embassy gave a luncheon for 500 to celebrate the prince's birth. In Sydney, Australia, a streetcar motorman chalked "It's a boy" in huge white letters along the sides of his tram, while Cremorne Hospital hoisted a diaper with red, white and blue streamers to the very top of its flagstaff. Frugal Edinburgh gave its pupils a half-holiday in honor of Elizabeth's blond, blue-eyed baby and an Aberdeen woman celebrated her 100th birthday with the wish that Britain...