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...rest of the field, with actual mileage per gallon: Studebaker Commander, 28.001; Studebaker Land Cruiser, 27.644; Willys Jeepster Four, 26.769; Nash Statesman, 26.122; Ford Eight, 25.994; Mercury, 25.945; Ford Six, 25.915; Lincoln, 25.448; Willys Jeepster Six, 24.973; Nash Ambassador, 24.926; Kaiser Deluxe, 24.713; Plymouth Concord, 24.145; Plymouth Cranbrook, 22.990; Hudson Hornet Six, 22.623; Chevrolet Styleline, 22.041; Packard 200, 22.023; Cadillac 60 Special, 21.979; Cadillac 61, 21.719; De Soto Deluxe, 21.622; Cadillac 62, 21.531; Chrysler Imperial, 21.178; Packard 300, 20.941; Chrysler Windsor, 20.886; De Soto Custom, 19.921; Cadillac 75, 19.869; Hudson Commodore Custom Six, 19.950; Chrysler Crown Imperial, 19.208; Lincoln Cosmopolitan...
Died. Eliel Saarinen, 76, Finnish-born architect, longtime President of the Cranbrook Academy of Art; in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. A painter in his youth, Saarinen won his first success with the elegantly simple Finnish Pavilion at the Paris Exposition of 1900, later designed the Helsinki railroad station and Finland's National Museum. An old friend of Frank Lloyd Wright and functionalism, Saarinen emigrated to the U.S. in 1923, designed (with his son) the Tanglewood Mass, music center and the Des Moines Fine Arts Center, worked unceasingly on his far-seeing city planning schemes...
...winged horse and heroic rider who angered Zeus by their presumption at trying to mount the heavens. The infuriated god sent a hornet to sting Pegasus' flank, and Bellerophon, thrown from the horse's back, plummeted to earth. Milles made a sketch model that stood in his Cranbrook, Mich. studio "for years," until Des Moines Publisher Gardner Cowles came along and commissioned him to complete it for the Art Center...
Brown, Robert Glenn of 717 Lansing Street Charlotte, Mich.; Charlotte High Forbes, Jack Eugene of 4409 North Pennsylvania Street. Indianapolis; Shortridge High. Indianapolis. Gresham Glen Edward of 210 Highland Avenue, Highland Park Mich.; Highland Park High, Osnes. David Marvin of 1530 Wellesley Drive Detroit: Cranbrook School Bloomfield Hills. Mich Piehl, DeWayne Jorvian of Box 42. RR No. 2 St. Joseph, Mtch; St. Joseph High Stegman Anthony Edward of 2882 Oak Grove Drive, Poatiac Mtch.: Catholic Central High Detroit...
...bird on the wing. The masters of machines that can outfly any bird for speed or distance must admit that a bird is, in a structural sense, a small and amazingly efficient living airplane. John H. Storer explains all this in a new book, The Flight of Birds (Cranbrook Institute of Science...