So it is something of a miracle to see two pages of her working notebook in which she describes the aftermath of a photo session with Joyce in 1939 (she had photographed him before, in the book stores, getting out of a cab): "Taxi — crash — cameras on the ground.
John Nash, the Nobel prize-winning mathematician whose life story inspired the film A Beautiful Mind, was killed with his wife Alicia in taxi cab crash in New Jersey on Saturday night, police said.
The American mathematician John Nash, who has died aged 86 in a taxi cab crash in New Jersey, made his public mark as the subject of the 2001 film A Beautiful Mind.
His diagnosed paranoid schizophrenia led to the breakup of his marriage – although he remarried his wife Alicia (who died with him in the taxi cab crash) in 2001 – the loss of his job, and nearly the loss of his Nobel prize when members of the selection committee were worried that he might never be able to pursue serious research again.
A man who robbed a bank yesterday stole a livery cab and crashed it while making his getaway in Queens, the police said.
Instead, it recommended that the railroad seek more state and federal aid to close its budget gap.Bruce Lambert (NYT) QUEENS: ROBBER CRASHES CAR BUT GETS AWAY A man who robbed a bank yesterday stole a livery cab and crashed it while making his getaway in Queens, the police said.
The driver leapt out after the men ordered her to turn around in a parking lot, causing the cab to crash into a parked car, the police said.
A taxi driver was fatally stabbed in the eye by a passenger while driving in Brooklyn on Thursday, causing the cab to crash into two parked cars during the evening rush, the police said.
"The luxury double-cab segment has crashed," says Steve Kimber, commercial vehicles director at Ford of Britain, partly explaining why overall pick-up sales tumbled by 34 per cent in 2008 and have plummeted by another 30 per cent so far this year.
