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...American World Airways will start regular tourist flights from the Midwest to Europe next year with biweekly service from Chicago and Detroit to London, weekly flights from the two cities to Copenhagen, Stockholm, Hamburg. Pan American has had CAB permission for such flights for years, but only now thinks there is enough traffic to make regular service profitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Dec. 28, 1953 | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...time when three men, with whom they had recently been talking, followed Hugens and jumped him unexpectedly while Durham walked on a few paces ahead. Durham immediately ran into the middle of the street looking for help. He eluded the men as they chased him and stopped the first cab he found...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Freshman Assaulted in Hub | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

...last twelve years, these ghoulish girls have won fame & fortune for their creator. A wiry, goateed man who still suffers from the "cab-horse knees" acquired in a World War II Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, Cartoonist Ronald Searle has seen St. Trinian's become a part of the British public school folklore. His first two cartoon books have both gone through nine printings, and the school itself has appeared in skits in at least three musical revues. Today its bloody playing fields are as famous as Eton's, and its horrible little girls are quite as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Poison-Ivied Walls | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

...Cab driver Joe Baker favors plurality voting. "I'd rather vote that way. Lots of guys make it now who people don't want. We should have some new faces for a change. I always voted for Sulley but I'm undecided about him this time. He makes a big noise but doesn't do much...

Author: By William M. Beecher, | Title: Cambridge Faces Return to Political Dark Ages | 10/29/1953 | See Source »

Although she had an income from an $85,000 farm left by her father, she became a prostitute, picking up men in bars, giving $2 apiece to cab drivers who brought customers to her. She charged $20 a night. Neighbors complained of wild parties in her home. Several months ago, in a drunken scuffle, she shot a traveling salesman in the wrist; he declined to prosecute. Bonnie Heady was just the girl for Carl Hall. He moved in with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Man with Soft Hands | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

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