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Last week, Cincinnati's Powel Crosley Jr. became the first postwar U.S. auto manufacturer to make a deliberate play for the hot-rod market. He introduced a two-seater "Hotshot" Crosley roadster, looking like a dime-store version of the once-famed Stutz Bearcat (see cut). Although Crosley estimates that not more than one out of 100 owners will use the Hotshot as a racer, he has made it easy for them to do so. Windshield, lights, bumpers and top can be stripped off in a few minutes, readying the car for road or track racing. Its overhead-valve...
Then he turned to "this man who calls himself Chambers, alias Adams, alias Crosley, alias Cantwell, and was a member of this nefarious, filthy conspiracy for twelve long years." Midway in his diatribe he veered to throw in a shocker. Discussing the secret documents which the State would present, Lloyd Stryker cried in triumph: "We have the typewriter! We'll let these FBIs come over and look at it all they like...
Triplets. With its pint-sized auto, Crosley Motors, Inc. was turning in a jug-sized performance. President Powel Crosley Jr. reported that in twelve months sales ($25,391,627) had more than doubled, net earnings ($1,496,854) had tripled...
Under protracted questioning, Hiss could offer no additional evidence to back up his contention that Chambers was "Crosley." He was unable to name anyone but his wife who had ever seen them together or anyone who knew Chambers as "Crosley." But he had some angry counter-questions of his own. He wanted the committee to ask Chambers if he had ever been treated for a mental illness. He also dared Chambers to come out from behind the shield of congressional immunity, and make his accusations again, so that Hiss could sue for slander or libel...
...committee proved that if there ever was a free-lancer named George Crosley, he had an extremely tough time of it. A search of the Library of Congress' extensive catalogues showed that one G. Crosley had had a book, of poems published in 1905 (when Chambers was four years old) and one G. E. Crosley, a medical doctor, had written a pamphlet on ultraviolet light in 1936. There was no record of a "George Crosley" having broken into print any time, anywhere during Chambers' lifetime...