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Penn Station in New York is brightly lit and gilded plastic. It is not a proper home for trains. The dispatcher sits in a glass booth suspended over the main hall. You know that he served his apprenticeship in an airport form the way he issues commands, as if it is all a game of Railroad, in which the people below are his playing pieces. If the Secretary of Transportation ever institutes high-speed train service on the East Coast, he will employ men like this Penn Dispatcher. The result will be an airline on wheels...
Parking my car in the lot behind the hotel, I took the long-standing precaution of black people traveling in unfamiliar territory--making reservation from a phone booth directly across the street from the hotel, then dashing across the street to the lobby to lessen the chance of getting the I'm-SO-Sorry-someone-JUST-took-our-last-room-routine...
Heyes, now in satisfactory condition at Mass. General Hospital, said he was hit at 6:30 p.m. Feb 6 while he was crossing Mass Ave. from Harvard Yard to the Unitarian Church, near the information booth...
...Marx '71 of Quincy House and Scarsdale, N.Y., managing editor; Julian R. Birnbaum '70 of Adams House and Caldwell, Idaho, business manager; Margaret J. Rizza '71 of Cabot Hall and New Britain, Conn. and Richard H. Rosen '71 of Adams House and Highland Park, III., poetry editors; Douglas A. Booth '71 of Dunster House and Beverly Hills, Calif., prose editor; Sarah Warren '70 of 103 Walker Street and Nahant, art editor; Elizabeth A. Campbell '71 of 56 Linnaean Street and Harvard, secretary; and Thomas A. Stewart '70 of Adams House and Glencoe, III., Dionysus...
...substitute for the old road, three new types of "road" have been developing for straight plays in recent years. The most established of these is the London route. Such plays as Hadrian the Seventh, Man in the Glass Booth, and The Homecoming were London successes brought to New York by American producers. This is not foolproof, since London hits can still be New York flops (such as Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane...