Word: berthoud
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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Tall, mild, bespectacled Floyd Clymer operates Clymer Motors, a Los Angeles wholesale and mail-order automobile-and motorcycle-equipment firm. When Floyd was seven, his doctor-father first let him drive his new 1902, curved-dash Oldsmobile. By the time he was eleven, Floyd was an agent (in Berthoud, Colo.) for Reo, Maxwell, Cadillac. In Floyd's motorcycling prime he broke a world's record for the 100-mile (71 min. 1916), a Pike's Peak record (26 min. 13 sec.; 1926), and his coccyx...