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There is a descendant of Charlemagne, Lucrezia Borgia, Mary Queen of Scots, William the Silent, Vladimir of Russia, Geoffrey Chaucer, Pierre de Ronsard, Diane de Poitiers, Agnes Sorel and 1,048,567 other traceable ancestors, who frequently breaks 70 on the golf links. Three years ago he donated a silver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: A Perfect Golfer | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

On the famous motor race track at Le Mans, France, sleek-bonneted speedsters screeched around the turns and thundered down the straightways in the most grueling sport-car endurance race on the speedway calendar. Plugging along at 70 m.p.h. -and letting other models slip past at better speeds-was a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baptizing the Family Car | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

Above all, the reductions underlined the fact that the auto industry is fast getting back to something like competition, although some cars are still hard to get. Ford's cuts were bigger than those made by General Motors a month ago, though smaller than the recent slashes in Kaisers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Young Henry Cuts | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

Stand Pat. There seemed small chance of anyone else following G.M.'s lead on prices. Said Ford Sales Boss Jack Davis: "We are not reducing the prices of our cars, because of the current high level of wage and material costs." Ford's three-passenger business coupe, now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Break | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

The sudden gale-driven snowstorm kept getting worse. Andy Archuleta could hardly see through the white swirl as he tried to keep his old Ford coupe on the drifted Wyoming road. When he was less than a mile from his home near Hillsdale (pop. 125), the car stalled for good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: Big Blizzard | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

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