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This is the varied stuff congressional elections are made of. Such issues call not for statesmen but for mass-mind readers. Top party strategy is still important, but it has to be custom-tailored to fit hundreds of special situations in hundreds of districts. From the sum of all this cutting and trimming and pinning will come the 84th Congress...
...auto enthusiasts packed the refurbished, fluorescent-lighted Grand Palais on the Champs Elysees to gape at such fancy sights as the Rapier, a white coupe designed by Milwaukee's Brooks Stevens and built in Germany on a Cadillac chassis, and the King of Arabia's custom-built Rolls-Royce (price: $27,000). Altogether, a record 107 manufacturers from nine nations trotted out their glittering showpieces...
...ratio than its U.S. cousin, will accelerate from zero to 60 m.p.h. in less than 20 seconds. It proved so popular that on opening day more than 1,500 orders were placed for the Versailles (de luxe) model alone. Simca showed off its new convertible. Other major attractions: a custom-built racing Jaguar with the famed 160-h.p. XK-120 engine; an $8,000 road-racing Porsche with a 70-h.p. engine and top speed of about 115 m.p.h.; a $10,000 Fiat designed by Pinin Farina with a top speed of around 120 m.p.h...
...gospel singers have a tradition that reaches back some 200 years to frontier days when countryfolk made up their own words to familiar secular tunes. Eventually, new tunes were written for community sings, camp meetings and revivals. The custom took root in the South, where musical evangelists and composers published volumes of their own songs. One of them, a trombonist-singer named Homer (Brighten the Corner Where You Are) Rodeheaver, managed the music for Billy Sunday. Gospel songs, he wrote, "are not written for prayer meetings, but to challenge the attention of people on the outside . . . They are used simply...
Mass & Class. Price has a price for every pocketbook, ranging from two-bedroom houses for $5,500 to three-and four-bedroom "Custom" houses (see cut) for $8,000 to $30,000 (with Indiana lime stone walls optional). On every house, National nets an average $100-enough to make Jim Price a rich man. One hundred shares of National, purchased for $5,000 in 1940, would now total some 60,000 shares (through splits) and be worth more than...