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...further casualty was the Square traffic box and its occupant, Officer Charles Delany. At 12:35 a.m. yesterday, Delany was injured when a Buick sedan struck the box. The extent of Delany's injures has not yet been determined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Crimes Mar Football Weekend Joy | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

Morton Sobell's "vacation" trip was sudden, indeed. He locked up his house in Flushing, N.Y. one day in June, left a brand-new 1950 Buick in the garage. Without even telling his employers that he was leaving, he bundled his wife, their two children and himself into a commercial airliner, and flew to Mexico City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: Detour | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

Died. Charles S. Howard, 73, California Buick distributor and race horse owner-in Hillsborough, Calif. In 1935 Howard paid $7,500 for a homely, wobbly-kneed three-year-old bay named Seabiscuit; at the ripe old age of seven, Seabiscuit came out of retirement to win the "Hundred Grand Santa Anita Handicap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 19, 1950 | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

...Reduce Prices with Pain." Fewer rickshas, buses and pedicabs are to be seen on the streets. Automobiles are mostly official; gas for private cars costs $1.40 a gallon. An unused 1948 Buick, offered for sale at $500 recently, found no buyers. Casualties are highest among high-class restaurants, bars, cafes, Western-style tailors, fashion shops and department stores. Said a Chinese trader who recently visited Hong Kong: "Between the Bund and the Park Hotel the show windows of all stores -including the big proud ones like Wing On, Sincere, Sun Sun and the Sun-are plastered with posters which shout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Shanghai Express | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

...Class Week of 1947 produced the first enunciation of the European Recovery Plan by General George O. Marshall, who, to Plumpton's mind, was the first statesman of heroic stature to appear since Bismarck. And in a frantic attempt to flee Cambridge, Pumpton piled up his roommate's Buick on the Worcester Turnpike and spent the summer in Stillman Infirmary. The bill, including repairs to the Buick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Fable for Critics | 6/2/1950 | See Source »

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