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...this good news has been pushed off the front page by the saga of Harry Weinberg, new president of the Fifth Avenue Coach Lines, and his one-man war against traffic sanity in New York. Weinberg, who took over the line several months ago from a management that confessed to its own incompetence, has proved an impossible man to deal with. His intransigence has resulted in the present strike of the Transit Workers against his line, and a new political struggle over the line's future between Mayor Wagner and Albany Republicans...
...problems which Weinberg's cabal was called in to solve affect every aspect of New York's present crisis. For a really adequate system of public transportation is the only alternative to increased private traffic on the city's streets. And, as Paul Goodman in a recent book of Utopian Proposals suggested, any final solution of the transportation problem must strictly limit--if not eliminate--the use of private automobiles, at least during certain hours...
...MUCKRAKERS (449 pp.)-Edited by Arthur and Lila Weinberg-Simon & Schuster...
Married. Lucy Monroe, 49, whose lyric soprano rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner has opened thousands of civic whingdings (World Series ball games, national political conventions, etc.); and Harold Marc Weinberg, 51, Manhattan attorney; both for the first time; in Manhattan...
...documents to Washington archives under the number EAP 105/40, the manuscript was all but forgotten. Scholarly sleuths from Munich's Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Institute for Contemporary History-TIME, Dec. 7, 1959) finally tracked it down, discovered that the University of Michigan's Professor Gerhard L. Weinberg had beaten them...