Word: carly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fines ranging from a lowly $11 to a staggering $55 are being handed out to car-owning students who break the regulation forbidding overnight parking on University property...
...Maid was originally written for the perishable market place of radio. It is a near-slapstick story of a small-town spinster who plays hostess to a hobo until he runs off with her maid and car. The libretto is a gag-writer's dream, filled with skillful swoons (by Marie Powers, star of The Medium), gay tunes, and amateur-theatrical hamming. The audience loved every minute of it, right down to the final clinch and the hero's preposterous curtain line-"Your mouth is an abyss...
...night last week, William Raphael McCabe, 63, a fighting editor of the old school, left his farm outside Joliet (Ill.) and headed his car for the city. It was press night for the 21st anniversary issue of his tabloid weekly Spectator-the last issue before the Illinois Republican primary. Stocky Editor McCabe, a onetime Republican state's attorney and opponent of Governor Dwight Green's machine, was a candidate for ward committeeman...
...lonely road, another car crowded him to a stop. Two masked men got out, reached in from both sides, and beat McCabe with spiked lead pipes. Two hours later a motorist found him unconscious in a ditch. He had a broken arm, broken legs, a fractured kneecap, deep gashes all over his body...
...Manhattan last week, Renault Ltd. exhibited its bid for a share of the U.S. auto market. The new French car is small (57 in. high, 141 in. long overall), and has its four-cylinder, 19-h.p. engine in the rear. Renault says that its car will go about 60 m.p.h., get 55 miles to the gallon. Price...