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...Nashville he was greeted by the Tennessean's publisher, cyclonic, pudgy Silliman Evans. In a big, red, open, flag-stuck Buick, they roared off at 60 m.p.h. behind ear-busting police sirens down the Franklin Pike to Mr. Evans' home, a plantation once owned by Andrew Jackson's partner John Overton. There field-hands drew beer in tin cups, sweaty cooks turned roasts over barbecue pits, visitors trampled the fresh young daffodils in the meadow. Mr. Farley spoke, shook hands, praised Cordell Hull, Tennessee, the post office, went indoors to eat a vast spread of fried chicken...
Suddenly the telephone rang. An urgent voice commanded: "You will present yourself immediately at the Imperial Palace." The big man put on his naval court uniform, and with trembling hands arranged a blazing white decoration over his heart. He stepped into his waiting Buick...
...sissy is Governor Leon C. Phillips. 49. One night last week he tumbled his 296-lb., six-foot-plus frame down the steps of the Oklahoma City Mansion, into a big black Buick, hustled over 121 miles of icy highways to Tulsa, banqueted, slept an hour on the way back, snatched two more hours' sleep at, the Mansion, was back at his desk ahead of his staff. That night he was in McAlester, 128 miles away; next night Wewoka, 72 miles, two nights later in Ada, 103 miles...
...Martin Block decided that there must be better rackets than tearing off Mr. Young's calendar. He found he had a purling, pitchman-style voice that made people buy things. He bought an old Buick, installed a phonograph, a microphone and loudspeaker, parked it under the windows of a chocolate yeast company's directors' meeting, let go with The Stars and Stripes Forever and a blaring, vitaminy commercial. At the music, directorial paunches creased over the window sills. At the commercial, three directors rushed downstairs, hired Martin and his noisemaker at $450 a week to plug chocolate...
...Buick: sneaked into the show with a deluxe "estate wagon." Feature...