Word: cadillacs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cadillac swung into Manhattan by way of George Washington Bridge; General Dwight Eisenhower said he wanted to "surround the town" instead of making a frontal assault. Threading its way through cheering neighbors and small fry, the car drew up at No. 60 Morningside Drive, the 21-room mansion where Columbia University's presidents live rent-free. Ike and Mamie Eisenhower were home...
...cigar-puffing Jockey Tod Sloan, who went in for monocles, valets and lavish entertainment (Tod once threw a $25,000 party for Actress Lillian Russell), Arcaro believes in the durable dollar. His chief extravagance is clothes; he owns 40 suits, mostly conservative greys and blues. He drives a 1947 Cadillac, reads FORTUNE to keep hep on industry, and invests in such blue-chip stocks as A.T. & T. He likes Scotch, but mostly on Saturday nights. He knows what happened to some of his predecessors...
...been living soft since he quit as contract jockey for the Greentree Stable 1½ years ago, sleeps until 9 a.m. He used to get up at 6 a.m., like most jockeys. Now a free lancer, he eats a leisurely breakfast, and at 11:30 a.m. hops into his Cadillac and drives to work...
...Legionnaires in spiked helmets with Beau Geste backflaps, Bedouins in rags of lacelike complexity, donkeys, camels, jeeps, trucks, U.S. cars. Through this tangled mass, a Legion jeep, mounting a Bren gun and a loud horn, clears the way for three white-helmeted motorcyclists preceding King Abdullah's lordly Cadillac...
...other Toscanini is the little old man who loves to go to parties, whirl down Manhattan's Hudson River drive from Villa Pauline, his Riverdale home, to Rockefeller Center in his black Cadillac, and play practical jokes on his family and friends. Once he arranged to have a rubber knife put at his wife's place at a dinner party, was furious when she found the meat tender enough to cut with a fork, and didn...