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...Royal Tradition. Daimler-Benz's highly skilled workers take it for granted that the new car will be a winner, for their company has a pace-setting tradition. Old Karl Benz invented one of the first gasoline engines, built racers which set such speed marks as Barney Oldfield's 131-m.p.h. pace on Daytona Beach's measured mile in 1910. Gottlieb Daimler, whose company merged with Benz's in 1926, built the first practical gasoline-driven car, and turned out luxurious limousines for royalty (e.g., England's Queen Alexandra and Germany's own Kaiser...
...Pittsburgh. In San Francisco a man shut off his TV set because "my wife and kids were crying and I couldn't stand it any longer." A Virginian wired the Boston police that Referee Rawson should be "charged with attempted homicide." In Los Angeles, ex-Welterweight Champion Barney Ross swore that he had never seen "such a brutal affair in a ring in all my life." Robert Christenberry, chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission, cried: "Everything we've done to make it a clean, competitive sport they've thrown to the wind. Where were...
...most versatile pianists trips the dark fantastic in a dozen of the best-liked Gershwin gems. There are times when the tune is hard to find, but Peterson's feeling for mood and invention never falters. In the same series and with the same fine sidemen (Guitarist Barney Kessel and Bassist Ray Brown) are LPs of Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, and Irving Berlin tunes...
...make. Even in the South, she finds the weather chilly; the food is not her favorite fish & poi. A recent happy discovery, that has added 12 Ibs. to her weight: grits & gravy. But most of all Jackie is homesick for Hawaii, her two daughters, and Chinese-Hawaiian husband Barney, a Honolulu fireman. Barney, on a day-on, day-off routine, helps cook the meals, does the washing, takes cafe of the kids. No golfer, Barney is often privileged to caddy for his wife, who outweighs him by 67 Ibs. The original golf widower, Barney maintains that he still wears...
Mixmaster Needed. In a sense, the new car is as old as the auto industry, which was weaned on sports cars and road races. In the first two decades of the century, such iron-armed drivers as Barney Oldfield and Louis Chevrolet were the heroes of the day. In 1906 a Stanley Steamer achieved an unofficial speed of 197 m.p.h. Young bloods roared along the dusty roads in Mercers, Stutzes, Mercedes and Locomobiles, exhausts thundering like Catling guns, driving horses and timid folk into the fields...