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...return to simplicity and economy in our automobiles is out of pace with the times, I shall then presume on an old man's (44) right to dream and remember the day when a Ford was a Ford, and not a composite of a Cadillac, a Buick, and a snorkel submarine rolled into...
Hammer in hand, Tennessee's Governor Frank Clement stepped up to a microphone in Nashville's War Memorial Square one morning last week, and loosed a brisk spiel about the merits of a 1951 Buick sedan. No man to shun the public eye or ear, youthful (32) Governor Clement-who is considered likely to run against Estes Kefauver for the senatorial nomination next year-was lending his oratorical flair to the auction of 44 state-owned automobiles. Reason: during his campaign for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination last summer, Lawyer Clement had pointed a shaming finger at the well...
...character in a romantic novel, and because it rhymed so pleasantly with Juanita, the name of the first Culp daughter. Mother Culp is a remote cousin of Herbert and J. Edgar Hoover; at 72, she still leads an active life in Killeen, fishing, gardening, and driving her own Buick. Ike Culp was a rawboned, fiery-tempered lawyer, a Baptist, a Prohibitionist, a politician and a lover of horses. As a skinny kid, Oveta became Ike's undisguised favorite, absorbed his love of horses and politics. On summer evenings, Ike Culp liked to stand among his horses and, cracking...
...until he found one letter, which he read and reread several times. At 9 p.m., his other mail still unread, Mahmoud buckled on his pistol, took his briefcase, and told his driver to drop him off at Khaneghah Avenue. He left his briefcase and revolver be hind in the Buick, set off along Khaneghah Avenue, an alleylike street honeycombed with apartments. He paused for a moment in a grocery, inquired of a boy there the address of a Hossain somebody (the boy could not remember the rest of the name), walked out and vanished...
Later police found Casey and Cunningham sitting in the back seat of Scalese's Buick on Mt. Auburn St. Casey's right shirtsleeve was covered with blood, and he admitted the fight, saying, "Jimmy and I did most of the beating," police testified...