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...intruders.' . . . [Restaurateur] Toots Shor told of Hemingway and Hugh Casey, the late Dodger pitcher, trading blows while standing in an open doorway in Havana. A knockdown every punch. Papa won. He never even lost a tooth. 'Spitting teeth is for suckers,' he said ... He hailed a cab. 'Sutton Place South,' he told the driver, then spoke some words in Italian. 'You an Italian boy?' the driver asked, and he said he was from north of Venice . . . 'Then what are you doing on Sutton Place South?' 'Doin' good,' said...
...Orient Express in Vienna. There was no one to meet him because nobody expected him; he was simply another American doctor beating a path to Vienna to learn something of what can again be learned in the onetime capital of European medical science. Dr. Appleby took a cab to the newly opened clubrooms of the American Medical Society of Vienna. Next morning, after a minimum of red tape, he stood at the side of one of Vienna's leading surgeons during a difficult heart operation...
INCENTIVES for U.S. planemakers to build commercial jet transports are being pushed by New Hampshire's Senator Charles Tobey. His plan, which has the blessing of CAB Chairman Oswald Ryan, calls for 1) Government loans of up to $20 million on 75% of the development cost of prototype jet airliners and 2) "forgiveness" of $2,000,000 of each loan for every plane built...
Fear & Bread. Fear pervades all levels of Argentine society, from cabinet ministers to cab drivers. Argentines have learned never to discuss politics on street corners, in restaurants or in the presence of strangers, servants or children. Fear often saves Perón the trouble of taking overt action. The once great independent newspaper La Nación theoretically is still independent. But in practice the editors of La Nación know that if they should print one or two outspoken editorials, the paper would be closed...
...Shift. In Chicago, Mrs. Violet Fine gave birth to a baby girl in a taxicab on the way to the hospital, said she had phoned for the cab instead of waking up her cab-driver husband because he works at night, and "I hated to disturb...