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...through the seemingly impenetrable Sierra, Gheerbrant needed the help of local Indians. His principle was nonviolence, his method diplomacy. Sometimes negotiations began with a bow and arrow aimed at a white man's heart and ended with Gheerbrant allowing savages to tug his beard and strip him of his possessions. But his supreme instrument of diplomacy was a Mozart symphony. Military marches left the Indians impassive; Louis Armstrong's trumpeting failed to send them; but Mozart always soothed the savage breast. "Such music." Gheerbrant writes, "did not . . . clamp down a mask of fear on [their] faces ... It opened...
...house in Cincinnati, where Briggs Sr. made his money in meat packing, the speedy shenanigans on Long Island were ignored. Father Cunningham was a lover of good horseflesh. It was not until he died in 1914 that Mrs. Cunningham bought the family's first car, a stately Pierce Arrow that Briggs, with the help of the family chauffeur, later learned to drive...
Cupid's Arrow. In New Orleans, Mrs. James C. Ragas received a shiny red valentine from a masked messenger at the door, turned over $73 after she read the inscription: "This is a stickup. Don't make any funny noises. All I want is the money...
...good, fast script by Arnold Becker hits only the biggest bumps on the Globetrotters' road to glory: beginning with the team's hobo start in the late '20s, when a few Negro boys tooled through the Midwest in a fourth-hand Pierce Arrow, playing pickup games, winner take all, in barns and dry swimming pools, and ending when the Trotters won a "World Professional Championship Tournament" at Chicago...
Chrysler, which has lagged behind the style parade, this week showed off a pair of new low-slung experimental models, the Plymouth Belmont and the Dodge Fire-arrow. Though Chrysler sold 1.6% fewer cars (1,224,000) last year than in 1952, it still leads the horsepower race with its 235-h.p. engine. But its conservative styling has not helped sales, and it has already been forced to cut back production of some of its 1954 models. To remedy the situation, Chrysler Corp. expects to incorporate some of the ideas of its racy experimental cars in a complete model change...