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...into the financial records at the highway's headquarters on Pigeon Key, he was told by Toll District General Manager Brooks Bateman that "nobody's going to see [the books]." Williams became more suspicious when he noticed that the district's "work boat" was actually a cruiser equipped with fishing chairs, outriggers and a sportsman's flying bridge. He also noticed a large highway-owned swimming pool, which had been "built for the benefit of the public" but never opened because officials later found that "state insurance regulations . . . prevented" them from doing...
...bombarded by phone calls, letters and wires. The most persistent bombardier: Studebaker Corp.'s Board Chairman Paul Hoffman, who arranged for trial spins in Studebakers, orated on their good qualities. Last week Secretary Weeks finally gave in and signed up for the works: a black, four-door Land Cruiser with power steering, automatic transmission, radio, white-wall tires, and foam-rubber upholstery covered with blue nylon...
...priced field ($1,500 to $2,050 f.o.b. factory), a six-cylinder Studebaker Champion beat out two Fords (the low-price winner for four years), a Plymouth and a Chevrolet, clicked off the run at an average 29.58 miles per gallon. Studebaker's bigger V-8 Land Cruiser won the upper-medium-price ($2,401 to $3,000) field for automatic transmission cars with 24.57 m.p.g., and the same car with standard transmission and overdrive won the sweepstakes grand prize by lightfooting it over the course at 28.1 m.p.g. for the best ton-mile record...
Last spring, Housemasters voted against future plans to stage the Friday evening informal dance atone of the upperclass Houses. As a result of this, J. Vernon Patrick '52, Secretary of the Union, mentioned yesterday possibilities of replacing the informal dance with a moonlight ride on a Boston Bay cruiser...
...Cover) Out from Miami's palm-lined Biscayne Bay headed the 71-ft. white-hulled motor cruiser High Tide, bound for a day of fishing in the Gulf Stream. At a table on her afterdeck sat the High Tide's owner: Harry J. (for Johnston) Grant, 72, a florid-faced millionaire with china-blue eyes, a mouthful of flashing gold teeth, and the booming voice of a sideshow barker. But energetic, stubby (5 ft. 8¾ in., 220 Ibs.) Harry Grant did not act like the run of carefree yachtsmen. When he was not tending the deep...