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...Main reason: the Southern Pacific's auto ferries shuttle cars across the Gate at 30? per trip. The bridge toll is 50?. Last year the ferries made more than $50,000. Bridge officials have contrived a solution to their problem quite compatible with much new-style Alice in Wonderland economics. They appealed to the California Railroad Commission to force the ferries to raise their charge to 50?. While waiting the Commission's decision last week, the birthdaying bridge's officials considered reducing their own rates, quickly rejected the idea...
...wonderland where every one is Alice, Where the ladies' room is bigger than a palace, At the Roxy Music Hall...
...play roles that would send most Hollywood beauties protesting to their agents, have given Bette Davis her present eminence. "I'm no Pollyanna," she says truthfully, "I like to play gutty girls and attractive wenches." There was a time, however, when she wanted to play Alice in Wonderland. "I'd be wonderful," said she, "with my popeyes and long neck...
...Samuel Sambursky and Max Schiffer of the Hebrew University in Palestine presented a detailed mathematical treatment of the idea that the universe is not expanding but appears to do so because the atomic measuring rods by which it is observed are shrinking-an illusion like that of Alice in Wonderland who, after nibbling a magic mushroom, found that the animals and everything around her were getting bigger because she was getting smaller...
...misdeeds land them in the New York City Children's Court. Costing about $390, the full library contains 19 fairy stories, 81 adventure tales, 85 biographies of human and animal heroes, miscellaneous books on civics, history, hobbies, religion, etiquette. The list contains such old standbys as Alice in Wonderland, such new ones as Munro Leaf's sensational best-selling Ferdinand, expurgated versions of Mother Goose and Grimm's Fairy Tales, omits such scary items as the Russian Fairy Tales, Slovenly Peter. For delinquents "above average intelligence" in the "Grades 9-12" group is included James Hilton...