Word: bentley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Otis Chandler Jr. are still very much in the market. Many others have discovered that luxury cars, particularly the more exotic models of Rolls-Royce, can be bought, enjoyed and sold at a gain. In Hollywood, an elderly elevator operator cashed in his life insurance to buy a 1954 Bentley for $10,000; he figures that the car will soon be worth more to his heirs than the insurance. Physicians and other professionals are buying cars at $20,000 and up, declaring them as business expenses for income tax purposes, and taking further profit when it is time to sell...
Hollywood, which experienced something of a motorcycle and Volkswagen phase a couple of years ago, is back to glamour cars with a vengeance. Last year 120 Rolls-Royces were sold in Beverly Hills alone. Polly Bergen traded in her new Mercedes for a one-of-a-kind 1957 Bentley convertible, while Dick Martin and Elvis Presley have bought $35,000 Stutz Blackhawks. Steve McQueen recently wanted a very special present for his friend Ali MacGraw-a limited-edition 1969 Mercedes 280-3 convertible. A dealer found one in St. Louis and had it flown to Los Angeles only to have...
Meeting the demand is driving dealers and amateurs alike to unusual measures in acquiring even low-priced finds. Warner Bros. Costume Designer Theodora Van Runkle bought a 1937 Chevrolet convertible five years ago for $200. The car looks like an old Bentley and recently attracted a $3,000 offer from a passer-by on the street. "It used to be that you could go to Europe and pick up an old Rolls or Mercedes for practically nothing," says Charles Schmitt, a Los Angeles dealer. "Now the European collectors are coming over here." Says Sugarman: "You can spend months tracking...
...whom Seeger traveled for awhile shortly after he dropped out of Harvard), accounts of the origins of various instruments and of Seeger's travels abroad, an unfortunately cursory version of his confrontation with the House Un-American Activities Committee (the full transcript is well worth looking up in Eric Bentley's Thirty Years of Treason), a list of the translators who did the King James Bible, quotations from Casanova and Lenin, and--most important of all --a liberal sprinkling of songs...
...Much of which apparently comes under the heading of expenses. Ike's salary is $40,000 a year, but the church pays for his traveling expenses, owns his Hollywood and New York residences, two Rolls-Royces, two Mercedes and a Bentley...