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...breakfast, slips into his cassock and runs down into the cathedral to serve 7 o'clock Mass. At 8:30 he wanders into the Zócalo (the city's chief square) looking for assistants. If there are no idlers about, he calls on his friends the trolley-car motormen, who not infrequently abandon their cars in mid-street, at the height of the rush hour, and climb into the tower to man the bell ropes...
Undaunted, the U.T. is following up with two more musicals on Saturday. In "Meet Me in St. Louis," Judy Garland sings the Trolley Song and is dewy-eyed with not-so-bad results. "The Three Caballcros" shows Walt Disney as a good neighbor and a bad movie producer. There's some fine music, but that was already tiresome a year...
...object to the so-called cable-car picture [TIME, Feb. 10]. The artist has fettered this poor thing with an overhead trolley wire and trolley pole. There is even a hook-shaped device on the front of this hermaphrodite for holding the trolley pole when not in use. . . . D. H. LEHMER Berkeley, Calif...
...among the first 100,000 to advise you that the vehicle in your cable-car drawing is no cable car. It is supposed to, be the old trolley which ran on Fillmore Street and for a brief, hilly stretch was hauled up the grade by the weight of [another] trolley going down. . . CLINT MOSHER San Francisco...
Burial in Berlin. In Vienna, the cold wave brought a bizarre crime wave. Robbers with Tommy guns held up trolley cars, stripped riders to their underwear, made off with their clothes. Raiding parties snatched hats (which were almost unobtainable by purchase) from men's heads in broad daylight. One Viennese, held up and stripped in front of his own door, asked for his key; the bandit fumbled through his victim's pants, found the key and the householder scurried indoors...