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...years, hapless straphangers have protested in vain. Chicago's traction troubles are rooted in corrupt politics and civic inertia. But last week Chicagoans were no less amazed than if they had suddenly seen the Wrigley Building afloat in Lake Michigan. The "traction problem" was apparently solved at last...
...Yorkshire last week the chances did not look bright. There some 16,000 coal miners went out on an unauthorized strike over the Government's request that they work harder in return for a five-day week. In vain burly Will Lawther, president of the National Union of Mineworkers, pleaded with them. "This is sheer anarchy," he cried, "more than criminal at a time like this." A miner in Armthorpe summed up the long-smoldering disappointment of his fellows: "Nationalization don't make no difference. There's still the bloody boss...
Despite flares and a pinpoint, radar-controlled search pattern, rescue planes crisscrossed the area in vain all night. At 7 the next morning, a Marine fighter pilot sighted an overturned life raft. A following B-iy spotted three survivors floating in the shark-infested water. An hour later the Coast Guard cutter Hermes picked them...
...boomed out the cow's pedigree: "ZangwilPs Bijou Lass, the daughter of Throaty Contralto by that great sire Glittering Generalization." The bidding stopped at $320. "Before I could extricate myself," writes Sidney Joseph Perelman, "the auctioneer had brought me to my knees and was administering the estocada. In vain I pleaded that I had merely been clearing my throat, that I lived in a hotel for business girls where no cattle were permitted...
...Dodger fans that game looked like the season's Gettysburg, complete with Pickett's charge, valiant but in vain. The Dodgers swept the series, and ran their winning streak to 13 games before losing three straight to the Cubs. At week's end they were still seven games out front. (On the same day last year the Cards were 1½ games behind...