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...drive from Manhattan to Miami gave Columnist Robert C. Ruark meat for an ulcerous attack on roadside restaurants. If you spot one that has "a neon light out front, a mess of chromium inside, and an easily evident juke box," he wrote, "what you get to eat would poison an ostrich . . . They will take a perfectly good horse-burger out of the freezer, and it comes to the customer, after subjection to the stove, a deep shade of grey and curled at the edges . . . There is no law which says that a roll or a piece of bread must...
Most of the criticism is remarkably objective. Sometimes he sacrifices objectivity for color ("Chausson . . . is furniture of chromium and pigskin"), sometimes for a personal prejudice ("Roy Harris' concerto has all the virtues of Brahms and none of the faults"). But most of his evaluations are well-reasoned, well-illustrated, and well-founded, whether they are on a Toscanini concert or a ragtime revival...
...eleven months, Gale Hall has sold 846,000 meters. Price: $7.50 (a chromium model sells for $12.95). With the American Automobile Association's stamp of approval as a result of the test, President White hoped to double his sales...
...last week, Berlin's Western sector had five months' supply of coal on hand and a six months' supply of grain and cereals. Along the Kurfürstendamm, against the grey bomb rubble, sidewalk cafes with flower-decked tables and shops with smart new chromium & glass fronts looked valiantly hopeful. But by & large, Berlin's economy was not healthy. It still had 294,000 jobless, a whopping 600 million-mark annual budgetary deficit. West Berlin was getting little aid from the Bonn government...
Bates for Dates. Author Musselman lavishes all his affection, and most of his space, on pre-World War I cars, including the Stanley Steamer ("a dilly of a car"). The modern chromium-plated "monster" -"overly long, overly wide, overly powerful"-leaves him cold. Around 1900, manufacturers were afraid to make automobiles look unlike buggies; in 1950, says Musselman, "most salesmen are afraid they'll have a car that won't look like an automobile." The result: radiator cap ornaments, "despite the fact that there hasn't been an exposed radiator cap in at least 15 years," engines...