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...switch at almost 30 m.p.h., swerved across the street to the left, and crashed into .the big grey tanks behind Trucker Wilson's cab. They ripped open like cardboard. Gasoline cascaded out, and caught fire almost instantly with a soft, terrible, thudding sound...
Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas lost his shoes on the Baltimore & Ohio Capitol Limited, padded off the train in Chicago in his stocking feet, took a cab to a shoe-store and bought a new pair. Then he went about his business of attending the Jefferson Day Jubilee (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Montana's Democratic Governor John Woodrow Bonner, 47, on his way to Biloxi, Miss, to make a speech, ran into a spot of trouble in New Orleans' French Quarter. New Orleans Cab Driver Philip Bellinger tried to piece together the story for reporters: "This guy came up to me on Canal Street. He was kinda stinkin', I guess. He told me he was the governor of Montana. We got a lot of tourists get to thinking they're governor sometime or other. I didn't believe this guy, but I told...
...honor, the Jackson post office put on sale special 3? stamps with his picture and that of the locomotive that Casey drove on his last ride. After a parade and concert, aged (76) Sim Webb, who had sat on the fireman's side of the Cannonball Express cab that night, rose and told again how he had jumped to safety before the crash. Casey's widow Janie, eightyish but still perky enough to relish an occasional nip of bourbon, also had her say. She indignantly denied the song lines attributed...
...this pimply-faced operator because he uses the prevalent "telephone" system. This means that he either stands outside or sits inside the cafeteria with a pocketfull of nickels, and phones in bets as soon as they are given to him. The mere passing of money from a student or cab driver to him is not sufficient evidence for arrest; since he phones in the bets immediately, he need take no written record of the wager...