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Dewey's home town, Buick-Dealer Harlow B. Ross summed up the election results in one disgusted sentence: "There are just more damned fools in this country than there are intelligent people." ¶Leesburg, Fla. reported a heavy Negro vote. It was apparently stimulated by a motorized parade of 250 members of the Ku Klux Klan on election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES,HISTORICAL NOTES: Election Sidelights | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...Faiman is a stocky, baldish, well-dressed man with a neat brown mustache and a look of respectability. He lives in an exclusive section of Dallas, drives a green Buick, has an attractive second wife. He has been supported in his pleasant position by panicky pregnant girls. Last week "Dr." Faiman was under a two-year prison sentence for selling "abortion paste" in interstate commerce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Case of the Violet Paste | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...Game of Life." Five miles from Secunderabad, the Hyderabad army was to surrender officially. A shiny Buick brought Hyderabad's army commander, Major General Syed Ahmed El Edroos, a black-haired, black-mustached man who told me a month ago he would "fight to the end." He advanced to meet Major General Chaudhuri, commander of India's ist Armored Division and field leader of the invasion. They shook hands, lit cigarettes and talked quietly while spellbound villagers looked on. Said Chaudhuri: "You'll have to clean up the Razakars." El Edroos nodded, looking slightly pale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Happy War | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

Moon-Shooter. Curtice and his ace salesman Bill Hufstader rebuilt the dealer organization, brought out low, medium and high-priced Buicks that could compete in almost any price range. By 1941, when Buick turned out 316,251 cars, they had pushed from eighth place to fourth, crowding out Dodge, Pontiac and Oldsmobile along the way. Once when the late Bill Knudsen saw one of Curtice's sales forecasts, he muttered: "Well, by Got, you can't shoot the moon unless you see it first, you know." Curtice not only made Buick one of G.M.'s most profitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Big Shake | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...moon Curtice has been trying to shoot recently is Plymouth's No. 3 sales position. Since war's end, Curtice has stepped up Buick's capacity to 500,000 cars a year but he has not been able to get enough steel to run full blast. Nevertheless, he has been treading hard on Plymouth's heels. At this time last year, Plymouth's lead over Buick in new car registrations was 43,130; last week it was only 37,308. As Red Curtice says: "In this business you can't stand still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Big Shake | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

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