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...Price Class. Plymouth Belvedere, 20.0088 m.p.g.; Plymouth Belvedere, 19.9897; Chevrolet Delray, 20.6441; Ford Fairlane, 19.7775; Ford Custom 6, 20.8870; Chevrolet Bel Air, 18.7284; Chevrolet Impala...
...buildings. While Le Corbusier is not personally designing the housing, residents complain that his plan results in a built-in caste system, with income groups divided block by block and identified by the color of their water cisterns. Another objection: the plan makes no provision for that old Indian custom of keeping a buffalo around the house...
...Copey was asked to broadcast his annual Christmas reading. He predicted that his first radio performance would be his last. As it turned out, he continued the custom and even allowed a movie to be made for future Harvard generations who would never see the master in action. Even in these operations, his sensitivity to the audience and himself was acute. At the end of his film, Copey remarks gravely: "Such thanks as a dead man can give you are yours...
Signs of the hard times are inescapable. A movie house proclaims cheaper admissions for holders of unemployment-compensation cards. Another recently started staying open all night, reviving the Depression custom of letting movie houses serve as places for shelter and a nap. Groceries advertise another depression standby: day-old bread. Restaurant men who used to have trouble finding enough dishwashers and porters now turn away lines of eager applicants. The police report a sharp upsurge in burglaries, thefts, armed robberies. On the other side of the law, a lot more young Detroiters are eager to wear a police uniform...
...point, he prefers filet mignon. A check-grabbing bon vivant, he turns pale at the thought of scaling down his caviar-and-cognac way of life-and managed to stay in the pink in Russia, where caviar cost $1.35 a portion, cognac up to $2.25 a snifter. He wears custom-made suits from London and monogrammed shirts from Paris (though they do nothing for his built-in rumples). Asked his favorite color, Gunther beams: "Smoked salmon-Prunier's, of course, not Reuben's." Nor would Host Gunther dream of serving domestic champagne at his massive parties...