Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart attack in 1943, another in 1952. In 1951 he turned up as a charity patient in a Philadelphia hospital for an operation on a lip cancer. Pro baseball and other groups raised a little money to get Jim back on his feet. Last week, in his auto trailer outside Los Angeles, the Old Indian, 64, had his last heart attack...
...Atlantic City's cavernous Convention Hall, at the United Auto Workers' convention last week, stretched a huge sign in gold block letters 20 inches high...
...Quantico, Va. last week, the Marine Corps showed off its new Mighty Mite a pint-size cousin of the wartime jeep (40 inches shorter and 1,300 lbs. lighter) The spunky little auto has no muffler (the tubular frame acts as one) and no axles (each wheel is independently sprung), and can plow through knee-deep mud, ford streams, hit 45 m.p.h. on a level highway, climb an 87% grade and be airlifted by helicopter. The Marines have ordered ten Mites powered by 65-h.p. Lycoming air-cooled engines, from Mid-America Research Corp. of Wheatland...
Arthur Godfrey planned to take sick leave (beginning May 4) from his CBS radio and television shows to have a surgeon patch up an old hip injury suffered in an auto accident 20 years...
Martin, who knows that one way to win friends is to praise them, spends millions advertising other people's products. For the second year in a row, he is devoting the commercials on his topflight TV whodunit, Suspense, to show off the cars put out by Auto-Lite's customers. In April, after he has shown ten cars on TV, Martin will spend about half a million dollars on his own "Parade of Stars" auto show at Manhattan's Waldorf Astoria. Says Royce Martin: "When we help the customer, we help ourselves...