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...famous story is told of a truck-driver, halted by an imperious wave of the Kittredge cane one morning who leaned out of his cab and shouted, "Hey, Santa Claus, where do you think you're going...
...night, five nights a week. Nevertheless Leader Shaw last week canceled 32 such golden dates in the South and Southwest, where he has never played. Reason: he was asked to shelve Negro Paige during that part of his tour. The South can take all-Negro bands like Cab Galloway's, and it doesn't mind small mixed combinations; against a Negro in a large white band it tends to draw the color line. But Artie Shaw, like most musicians, is colorblind...
John Hertz is a businessman and a tough one. He founded Yellow Cab Co., in 1925 sold it (and Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co.) to General Motors for more than $30,000,000, retired to the race tracks. But he never quit working, has since dabbled in movies (Paramount), aviation (T.W.A.), more transportation (New York City Omnibus and Omnibus Corp...
...finally shot down into whitewashed Antonito, lived on to nurture some fabulous tales: of how they had to hinge the engine's boiler in the middle to get it around the curves; of how the conductor in the caboose bummed chewing tobacco from the engineer in his cab as the little train coiled back on itself on hairpin turns; of how buffalo charged the pint-sized engines ; of how the train rolled down the mountain so fast it reached Antonito ahead of the sound of its whistle...
Manager Bill McKechnie of the Cincinnati Reds bought a plane ticket from Chicago to Pittsburgh, jumped into a cab after he landed, ordered the driver to Forbes Field. The driver had never heard of it. McKechnie seethed but it was not the driver's fault. McKechnie had hopped the wrong plane, was sitting in a cab in Detroit...