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...crowded to the dikes with energetic Dutchmen. With the highest birth rate in Western Europe, and the lowest death rate in the world, Holland has doubled its population in the last 50 years, now has 10 million people for an area little larger than Maryland. Grumbled a Rotterdam cab driver: "This country gets so it isn't any fun any more. When you take a vacation, you can't find a place to go because everything is full. There's people and rules and regulations everywhere, and when the army comes back from Indonesia next year, there...
Before the publishing house of George Newnes Ltd., just off London's Strand, a hansom cab stopped and out stepped an elegant young man in top hat and frock coat. He was Arthur Conan Doyle, come to deliver the manuscript of a short story entitled A Scandal in Bohemia. Published in the six-month-old Strand magazine, in July 1891, the story's hero was a sleuth named Sherlock Holmes. He was an instant hit and so was the Strand...
T.W.A., the third U.S. North Atlantic carrier, objected to the sale. Last week, in a 200-page report, Civil Aeronautics Board Examiner Thomas Wrenn brushed aside T.W.A.'s protests and recommended that CAB approve the merger. Cried T.W.A. President Ralph Damon: a "monopolistic grab...
Wrenn's recommendation has yet to be approved by CAB and the White House. But after listening to twelve months' tedious argument, Examiner Wrenn had come to some carefully weighed conclusions. Said he: none of the evidence showed that "the reduction of from three to two U.S. [overseas] carriers would per se violate the established policy of regulated competition...
Adapted by Adolph Green and Betty Com den from their own stage hit of 1944, On the Town is still the story of three sailors on a 24-hour fling in Manhattan. Chip (Frank Sinatra) and Ozzie (Jules Munshin) quickly team up with a pretty man-eating cab driver (Betty Garrett) and a man-crazy anthropology student (Ann Miller). Meanwhile, Gabey (Actor-Director Kelly) scours the town looking for his ideal: Miss Turnstiles (Vera-Ellen), the girl-of-the-month on the subway posters...