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...Manhattan, Adolf Hitler's custom-built, gangster-model Mercedes-Benz (135-m.p.h. speed, bulletproof glass, adjustable armored plate) was delivered to its buyer, a man named Christopher G. Janus. Having done more looking backward than ahead, Janus admitted: "Now that I've got it, I'm not sure . . . what to do with...
...time a Class has held its 25th get-together, according to Peter E. Pratt '40, director of the Alumni Records Office, the frivolity of costumes has usually worn off and the custom has been abandoned...
...Arthur Fremantle, British observer with the Confederate Army, was sitting in the top of a tree, looking out over the field. Under the same tree sat Generals Robert E. Lee and A. P. Hill, planning the day's action and "assisting their deliberations by the truly American custom of whittling sticks." Shells and bullets began to hiss and whine once more; but in his Gettysburg garden Sallie Broadhead's husband doggedly "picked a mess of beans . . . [and] persevered until he had picked all, for he declared the Rebels should not have one." Soon, the smoke of battle grew...
...days before they were to leave, the trip was called off. Five of the New York boys were Negroes. The Automobile Club could find no Washington hotel which would let the boys room or eat together because "it was not the custom to put up Negro and white guests together...
...Chinese have never been noted for mass production of anything but masses; but civilization is an old Chinese custom. Some 1,200 years ago, long before movies were invented, the Chinese had a fair substitute. They painted picture stories on long silk scrolls, to be scanned slowly from right to left...