Word: carful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Return Address. In Midland, Pa., James Aeschbacher stole Ernest Albert's car, a few days later called for a blind date, found she was Albert's daughter...
Juggernaut. In San Diego, Dmitrios Gianules's empty car started rolling, knocked him unconscious, dragged him 66 feet, ran up an incline, careened back, hit him again...
...week's end the President took in his third football game of the season: Army-Navy at Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium (see SPORT). Press Secretary Charley Ross was at pains to emphasize that the eight-car presidential special train burned no coal; its motors were driven by hydroelectric power. Traditionally impartial, the President changed sides in the middle of the game, but walked out (at Secret Service urging) with two minutes left to play, missed the Navy's nearly successful final drive...
...beats up his own material singlehanded, types it at 3 a.m. (he sleeps till noon), edits it at the nearest coffee shop ("the restaurants of the country are my workshops"), sells it, mimeographs and distributes it to his newspaper clients. He goes where he pleases, mostly in his own car, writes whatever his common-denominator instinct directs about each day's wanderings. Last week he was hunting near St. Petersburg...
...until a year ago they saw scant chance of ever getting one. Then William Denis Kendall, 43, manufacturer and member of Parliament, who seemed to be a happy fusion of Henry Kaiser, Van Johnson and Superman, set all Britain abuzz with plans for a People's Car...