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...face it," says Sales Manager Joe Bensley of Los Angeles' Bruin Motor Co., "service in most places is lousy." Bensley -who is known for good service-and other dealers blame the factory, complain that Detroit inspects only one in ten cars, sends dealers cars that take two or three days to get into shape, gives them an insufficient allowance to do the job. "The dealer just can't do it in a volume business," says Bensley. "He has to push out cars as fast as he can. The customer finds all kinds of things wrong with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: The Arabian Bazaar | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...night last week with two lieutenants, a squad of sergeants and a radio operator, taking walkie-talkie calls from patrolmen stationed for blocks around. The radio crackled: "Post No. 3 reporting, 9:30 p.m. All is peaceful." This reassuring word came from the street outside 10630 South Bensley, where six cops sat in a tin shack, a hole in its roof covered by an old dishpan, warming themselves at a portable stove and ignoring the shrill profanity of a gang of teen-agers across the street. If Post No. 3 had reported trouble (as it sometimes did), hundreds of additional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Seven Months' War | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...Beginning. No light came from the windows of an apartment at 10630 South Bensley; none has for months. But there were people there. Behind the plywood barrier set up to protect them from bricks and stones were Donald Howard, his wife and their two small children, going about their nightly routine, dinner, the television, bedtime for the kids. So they have been living for many weeks. The Howards are Negroes, the first of their race to become tenants in Trumbull Park. They got the apartment last summer partly because a state law forbids discrimination in public housing, partly because their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Seven Months' War | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...Thorndike and Bob Forsyth can shut out Scot Johnson for second and third in the hammer. If Lockett, Lawrence, and Torrey can outvault the equally-good trio of Eustis, Bensley, and Larsen. If high-jumpers Gene Harrigan and Mary Jenkins can stay up there with Jim Keyes. If Sam Felton can split Frank and Bowers in the discus. If Thayer, Kumple, and Carter can beat Yale's brilliant but erratic broad-jumper Nathan Bundy (he hit 23 feet, 6 inches last week against Princeton). If sore-armed Don Trimble can take at least one javelin throw to prevent the Elis...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Bulldog Track Squad Favored Over Varsity | 5/7/1948 | See Source »

Pole vault Three-way tie among Bensley, (Y), Eustis, (Y), and Lockett, (H), 13 feet 6 inches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Track Team Victim Of Rhapsody in Blue, 82-27 | 2/24/1948 | See Source »

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