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Died. Michael S. Lira, one of the three survivors of the S-51, which was rammed by the City of Rome (TIME, Oct. 5, 1925, July 19, 1926); near Joliet, Ill., when a bus crashed into a concrete abutment...
Tourists were edified. They could boast of seeing "linkmen"* going once more about London town, bearing torches before the motorcars and persons of the great. Bus conductors walked ten feet ahead of their busses, connected with them by electric wires on which lamps glowed. When two bus conductors sighted each other they signaled port or starboard to the drivers whose busses did not then bump. At Charing Cross, at every major crossing, huge gasoline torches sent up roaring flames three feet high?barely visible at ten yards...
...gentleman can create interest in TIME by reading it to himself on the New York subway, think what could be done in the Central West by a few genuine go-getters not afraid to shout out what they like on a bus...
...hire a few "able" flappers, too? They might set you back $25 a week, but they would be worth it on top of a Fifth Avenue bus in warm weather, and around hotel lobbies during the winter...
Certain incongruities are also to be found in the happenings of the night. There was, for instance, H. S. Barker, a Somerville drug clerk, who in attempting to transfer from a bus at the Square, before taking 10 steps, was hit on the head and piled into the wagon with the students. Baker, it is said, is "married and has two children...