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Four hours later, small Johnny Amato was taken to a police station. Of his mother's $3,000, he had spent all but $92 on ice cream, pastry, candy, bicycles, roller skates, coaster wagons for himself and friends, to whom he also distributed $10 and $20 tips. For his mother, whose store his friends patronized with the money he had given them, he bought a pair of roller skates. Mrs. Amato hoped to retrieve $500 which Pig Johnny had left on deposit at another candy store nearby...
Basic principle of "free-wheeling": When the car rolls faster than the engine is turning over, the rear wheels are automatically disengaged from the engine. Bicycle makers long ago incorporated this principle in the "coaster" brake. In the automobile it amounts to an automatic shifting to neutral whenever the engine threatens to act as a brake on the car. When the engine is desired as a brake aid, an auxiliary gear is ready for the purpose on the new Studebaker...
...automobiles. Other designers have used toboggan slides and umbrellas, massed lines, moving lines of busses and cars. Artist John Held Jr. has done a jazz band-round bald heads, heads with sparse hair, their owners blowing saxophones or beating drums. Sil-houet prints contrast the curves of a roller-coaster runway with the straight lines of tall supports. The emphasis in the toboggan cars suggests a pattern of the Orient rather than Coney Island. So called "message prints" (letters of various sizes & colors printed on a lighter background) spell out such words as "It," "Cheerio" & "Je t'aime." Ticker...
...Coney Island, N.Y., one Harry Mann went for a ride on a Giant Coaster. On the rear seat sat a male and female, lovingly. Curious about their activities, Mann drew a mirror from his pocket, stood up in his seat, tottered, fell under the rear wheels, was ground to death...
...indeed! In describing the first night of John Howard Lawson's "Processional," Mr. Don Passos, who takes the play as his model, compares the surprise of the audience to that of a maiden lady on a roller coaster for the first time. To him, the drama as we have it is the work of such a maiden lady, and he wishes to substitute for it something comparable to the obvious popular method of the roller coaster, an engine which he appears to think has been a powerful instrument for good in the development of our American culture...