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...Virginia state trooper accused Bandleader Cab Calloway, oldtime King of Hi-De-Ho, of driving 65 m.p.h. and then offering a $10 bribe to be permitted to swing along merrily to a nearby racetrack...
R.S.V.P. In Des Moines, Cab Driver William A. Roach hired a man to beat him up, was hauled off to a hospital, told police that "I thought my former wife would come here to see me," was informed that she couldn't make...
...field manager for the U.S. Mail Service and regional maintenance superintendent for American Airlines. In 1941, Colonial hired him as its top maintenance man. As president, he succeeds Alfons Landa, who took the job on a fill-in basis when Sigmund Janas resigned under fire from the CAB (TIME, July 2). Last week Landa reported that Colonial had a 1951 net profit of about $213,000 v. a $310,000 loss...
...Taft hammered at a money point: $65 billion of the $85 billion U.S. budget is going to the military. By the time he left town, the people were talking about that. "Sixty-five billion out of 85 billion is what Truman is giving the Army," said a Spokane cab driver. "My gawd...
...Faure well knew, France is on a gaudy whirl. Its cost of living, already high, has jumped 23% in the past year. Heat and light are up 42%. Last week the Paris Opera raised its prices 17% and Parisian cab fare jumped 20%. Ministers worried whether tourists would come to so expensive a country. The French themselves worried about the spreading gap between wages and prices...