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Best buy ever offered, over 200 disappointed early rising readers agreed, was a 1941 Buick automobile with all accessories for $350. Residents of the address given who were awakened at sunrise also agreed, and expressed a wish they had known about such a car so that they might...
...reason for lagging K-F sales is price. Competing automakers reckon that the Kaiser and Frazer should sell for around $1,600. But the Kaiser is now up to $2,029 and the Frazer up to $2,220 F.O.B. Detroit. At such figures, car buyers can get a Cadillac, Buick or Chrysler. Apparently many of them have decided to wait until new cars with old names are ready for them...
...Cadillac and Buick divisions still plan to bring out 1948 models some time and all G.M. divisions will bring out their 1947 models early next year. They will be practically the same as 1946 models (only changes: "identification" changes in radiator grilles and decorations). G.M. still has time to change its mind on 1948 models, if competitors force...
Just outside of Livingston, Ala. the dusty 1941 Buick convertible pulled up beside the road. Four men pored over rumpled road maps. The sallow one with tousled, thinning grey hair said he wanted to get to Moscow. He said it in Russian. The maps didn't help; the whim of Ilya Grigorevich Ehrenburg to visit Moscow, Ala. was not satisfied.* But by last week the Soviet Union's foremost journalist had spent 15 days rambling through the South at his own pace, following his own itinerary with companions of his own choice. It was the kind of reportorial...
...owner and driver of the Buick was Virginia-born, 29-year-old Daniel Gillmor, editor & publisher of the late, Communist-line magazine Friday. An amiable State Department employe, Bill Nelson, had come along as friend and interpreter. Self-invited, but welcome, was the New York Post's stocky New Dealish Columnist Sam Grafton, who went along for the informative ride. But it was quick-tongued, 55-year-old Ilya Ehrenburg's junket. He asked to see, and was shown, TVA, the South's big cities, its villages & farms, a cotton plantation, a sharecropper's acreage. (Once...