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Cadillac's biggest news was the Eldorado Brougham, which will come out in midyear as the answer to Ford Motor Co.'s $10,000 Continental. The low (54-in.), four-passenger Brougham will have pivoting seats (for easier entry), a 3O5-h.p. engine and an $8,500 price tag. Cadillac has no worries about its '55 inventory. At the latest count, dealers had an average of only 1.4 unsold '55 models-and a total of 64,000 unfilled orders for '56 models...
DREAM CAR from this year's General Motors Motorama is moving to the assembly line. Cadillac's "Eldorado Brougham," a low-slung, four-door hardtop, will soon go into production to compete with Rolls-Royce. Price...
...Cupid by accidentally winging an arrow into the leading man's eye. For the next 25 years, little (she tried to keep her weight at 100 Ibs.), blonde, lively Fannie appeared in shows in New York and London, gave more sensational performances riding up Fifth Avenue in a brougham clutching her $12,500 sables. She married London Diamond Dealer Joseph Lewis in 1898, was divorced by him in 1913, promptly married Actor John Dean, the man Lewis had named as corespondent. Angrily vowing that she never had her face lifted, Fannie claimed, depending on her audience, that her smooth...
...night in 1914, fire broke out in College Hall. By morning, the hall ("a palace!" a visiting male had observed) was a ruin. In its place rose modern Wellesley. Stately President Ellen Fitz Pendleton and her electric brougham were succeeded by trim Mildred McAfee Horton and her Pontiac. When President Horton, wartime head of the Navy's WAVES, resigned last year to help her husband, the Rev. Douglas Horton, with his work for the Congregational Christian Churches, Wellesley went looking for a Margaret Clapp...
Forgotten Man. "At first it wasn't so bad'" says Brougham, "because Hearst forgot he had a Seattle paper. I threw his editorials on the floor and ran local stuff. . . ." In 1929 Hearst remembered, and Brougham went back to sports-but at a bigger salary than his successor...