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...usually mistaken for her step-daughter-in-law, the present Marchioness of Reading. The Viceroy told her the best way to understand the American people was to attend their national political conventions. She went to both in 1936, then went coast-to-coasting in a fifth-hand Buick. To understand the Americans a little better she stopped at tourist homes at night and helped with the dishes next morning. WVS takes all her time now on a 9:45-till-anytime schedule. Her London house is closed and when she sleeps she sleeps in a West End hotel, the name...
...sang-froid of a proper flier. Born 39 years ago in the little town of Lerdo, he attended Mexican schools, crossed the U. S. border to get a degree at New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, went to an automobile school in Kansas City, worked at the Buick plant in Michigan. In 1926 he took a $3 ride with a barnstormer. Next day Pancho started flying lessons and he has never been out of flying for more than three months since. He ran a flying school in Mexico, became President Cárdenas' personal pilot...
...Montreal baseball park 50,000 children, mostly French Catholic, 900 of them forming a great Union Jack, sang while the King & Queen sat in an open Buick near home plate...
...start the 1939 auto model year off with a bang. Soon all steel-peddling haunts buzzed with reports that auto production schedules called for 1,000.000 1939 cars by year's end. At a ton of steel per car, Detroit would have to buy 1,000,000 tons. Buick had just bought 35,000 tons. Ford was shopping for 50,000 tons. For the steel industry the days of on & up were coming back...
...Ledbetter, self-styled "King of de twelve-string guitar players of de worl'," had been sentenced seven years before for murdering another Negro in a brawl over a woman. Out of jail, Lead Belly combined his career of gin, women and song with a job in a Houston Buick agency. Five years later, in 1930, Lead Belly was jugged again, this time in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, convicted of stabbing six Negroes in a fight over a can of whiskey. But again Lead Belly's minstrelsy came to his rescue. Texas' eminent Folklorist John A. Lomax, poking...