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...Francisco taxi, lean, sepulchral Samuel Morgan Shortridge, 73, onetime (1921-33) U. S. Senator from California, paled and slumped in his seat. The taximan sped his unconscious fare to a hospital. There physicians examined him, shook their heads. They had just issued a bulletin stating that he had collapsed from a heart attack and had not long to live when the ex-Senator's doctor rushed in, re-examined him. Cried the doctor: "He's hungry. He just had his teeth pulled and he's not been able to chew his food." Fed, Mr. Shortridge quickly recovered...
Married. Anne Douglass Gould, 21, fashion-modeling great-granddaughter of Jay Gould; and Frank Spencer J. Meador, 24. Texas-born actor; at 3 a. m. in Harrison. N. Y. after a taxi elopement from Manhattan...
...came up to the White House in a taxi and, finding himself out of funds, borrowed two bits from Gus, to the great glee of the assembled reporters. Fred Storm (United Press) immediately shot the story into the U.P. and within a couple of minutes it was back in the White House over the Washington City News Service printer. It was torn off and handed to the President, who had it in his hand when Law, Hecht, and Robert Fleming of the Riggs Bank came into his office, only a few minutes after the borrowing incident...
...days later a potent delegation of bankers accompanied by Francis M. Law, retiring ABA president, went to the White House to thank the President for his kind words. Banker Law. arriving by taxi, found that he had no money in his pocket. A correspondent of the Wall Street Journal lent him 25? and impishly put an account of the transaction on the Dow-Jones news ticker. Before the delegation was ushered into the Presidential office Mr. Roosevelt had got the news from his ticker. He met Banker Law grinning. The New York Herald Tribune solemnly quoted the President...
...taxicab accident was his excuse for missing last week's Tristan. But Philadelphians were no more concerned than when he decided to go hatless, scold subscribers, ride a hobby horse at rehearsals. Stokowski had ''taxi trouble" in 1927 after which he took a leave of absence. He was "hit" again in Manhattan in 1930 when his performances with the Philharmonic suffered in comparison with those of Arturo Toscanini. Stokowski's position in Philadelphia was strengthened materially when his great admirer Curtis Bok lately became president of the Orchestra.* And it is an open secret that Manager...