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When Warren Delano lost his fortune in the panic of 1857, he left his home near Newburgh, N.Y., went back to China to recoup his wealth. Five years later he sent for his family. Sara was then a little girl. She went out to China on the clipper Surprise. They lived a year in crowded Hong Kong, traveled home by leisurely stages through Europe. In Berlin she spent one winter, studying at a private school. In Paris she spent another. Back in Newburgh, Sara Delano became a belle of the Hudson River Valley...
Packard shocked fellow automakers on two counts: 1) instead of raising prices (as most manufacturers are expected to do), it cut them $50 to $183 a car; 2) it made a clean break with venerable Packard styling, adopted the ultra-windstreaming featured on the "Clipper" put out last April. Packard, though busy on some $250,000,000 of defense orders, assured dealers: "For the next four months there will be no car shortage." All Packards use aluminum pistons but the company is tooled to use cast iron when necessary...
Last week, as he hustled to Clipper home from China, where Harry Hopkins had dispatched him (at $1 a year) to pep up lend-lease traffic on the fabled Burma Road, Speedster Arnstein had again done his stuff...
...successive league games, the crack Yankee Clipper had gone to bat 223 times, had made 91 hits (including 15 homers, four triples, 16 doubles) for a total of 160 bases. Against 42 pitchers, he had struck out only five times...
...loped around the bases amid a deafening roar, the 26-year-old Yankee Clipper left in his wake the broken fragments of one of baseball's immortal records. Di Maggio had just hit safely in his 45th successive game, bettering the fabulous string of 44 spun by wondrous Wee Willie Keeler (who "hit 'em where they ain't") 44 years...