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...mechanic turned executive, still likes to tinker with machinery in his home workshop in Harrington, Ill. He invented the Tropic-Aire hot-water heater to replace the dangerous and smelly exhaust-pipe system for heating buses, saw it become the standard for passenger cars. The son of a Swedish blacksmith, Caesar went to work in an auto-repair shop in his teens, later started a small bus service. In 1925 he joined forces with the late Eric Wickman, who had been building up a bus system in Minnesota since 1914, when he started with a single jitney...
...problems for Taylor. There is, of course, the scene with the hero trapped in his palace room as a group of adversaries outside threaten to break down the door. Knights of the Round Table adds a degree of sophistication: Robert Taylor discovers that his sword is out at the blacksmith's for repairs and has to fight off the first few rogues with a torch. Later, in the wrestling scene between the cunning antagonist and the formidable knight, the pair work their way over to the edge of a cliff. Here, oddly, it is Taylor who gets thrown...
...Church Street, it was a women's exchange where refugee wives could sell embroidery, lacework, or pastry. Its only distinguishing feature was the large window after which the shop was named. A modest success, the store soon moved to larger quarters, finally settling on Brattle Street in the Blacksmith's Shop immortalized by Long fellow. Now employing over sixty workers, the Window Shop has seven small dining rooms, a gift and dress store, and a bakery...
Devastating Oaths. Technically, Monty is the Deputy Supreme Allied Commander under U.S. General Alfred M. Gruenther. His job, as Eisenhower once put it, is to "forge the weapon" with which the NATO allies hold off Russia in Europe. In practice, he is far more than SHAPE'S blacksmith. He is its schoolmaster, conscience, physical-education instructor, its gadfly and occasionally its terrible-tempered Mr. Bang...
Luncheon was ending when a German military convoy drove into Oradour. A few curious Frenchmen left the tables to watch the helmeted soldiers dismount. Two yellow and green camouflaged tanks took up a position in front of the 15th century church of Oradour. Then old Jean Depierrefiche, the town blacksmith who was also the town crier, went through the streets calling on all inhabitants to assemble at the market place with their identification papers. The German soldiers began roughly turning people out of their houses. "Get up to the square," some of them shouted in French. The sick came...