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...ground, 4,000 feet below. People on the ground heard an ear-shattering roar from its engines. The doomed plane's drunken glide steepened into a dive. From the vertical it went slightly on to its back, completing part of a wide outside loop. From the CAB plane, the inspectors saw it plunge into a clump of trees, disintegrate in a great cloud of smoke and flying debris...
Divorce Revealed. Lady Edward Montagu, fortyish; from the Duke of Manchester's second son, gadabout Lord Edward Eugene Fernando Montagu, 41, who at one time or another has been deckhand, hobo, cab driver, hot-dog vendor, U.S. Army private; after nine years (no children); in Manhattan...
...Marvin H. Flemming's statement: "I could hear some licks like they were pounding on him with the butt end of a gun. I heard the Negro say, 'Lord, you done killed me.' " Finally, said Charlie Covington, he heard Roosevelt Carlos Hurd Sr., a Blue Bird cab driver, cry out: "Give me the gun and let's get this over with." Just then, "a tall, slender boy with bushy hair hit the Negro in the mouth and knocked him down. The Negro started to get up when Mr. Hurd took the shotgun. He shot the Negro...
Unlike gentlemanly Willie Hoppe, the carom-billiard king* who appears to be looking at the ceiling while his opponent shoots, Mosconi and Crane eyed each other like two men trying to flag the same cab on a rainy night. Mosconi, shooting almost too rapidly, made runs up to 139. But when he missed he banged the table unbecomingly, sat down, and snapped irritably to spectators who stood in the doorway: "Come...
From then on in Paris, everyone from cab drivers to nightclub operators exchanged dollars at the black-market rate. He found Parisian food mostly good, cheap in second-class restaurants in terms of the black-market exchange. Sample supper menu: vegetable soup (watery); green salad (wonderful); cheese omelet (out of this world); white wine, small coffee, patisserie. Cost for two: $2.50. The hotel bill for four days was 3,003 francs ($13 black market...