Word: darned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nathan P. Carleton '51. one of many owners of 1929 Model A Fords, admits his plain black job "doesn't have much character; it's just a darn good car." Lacking the rustic qualities of a Model T or the urbane class of a Rolls, the car amazed its owner recently by apparently running 10 miles on an empty gas tank and coming to a dead stop before a gas station...
Orvon Autry may have gotten his start as an Oklahoma railroad telegraph operator, but gol darn if he didn't turn out to be America's Favorite Singing Cowboy. Good old Gene is back in the saddle all right--the latest round-up takes him to the Boston Garden for the 18th Annual World Championship Rodeo, which runs through Sunday (matinee championship performances over the weekend...
...good future. In such a commonplace as a yam, science was finding new hope for the ill (see MEDICINE). There were also new comforts to living. There was a 24-lb. sewing machine on the market which not only could stitch but could embroider, make buttonholes and darn socks. There was an announcement that the New York Central would soon have ready for wilting and near-sighted New York commuters 100 air-conditioned cars with fluorescent lighting and improved couplings to soften the shock of frequent stopping & starting. The rubber companies were testing an automobile tire that might...
...delay in getting heavy earth-moving equipment over back roads, CHESF's shirtsleeved, roly-poly President Jose Antonio Alves de Souza told his men to go ahead without it. As his barefooted laborers struggled last week to haul rude, four-handled wooden trays of rock from the darn excavations, Alves de Souza said: "Sure, we've got too many men here now. But we can't just sit and wait for the machinery to come. We're in a hurry...
...Cinemactress Joan Blondell's backstage ad-libbing. Producer Harold J. Kennedy, who had hired Miss Blondell for a week's stand in Happy Birthday at Princeton, N.J., said Joan used "vile and abusive language" to his cast. Joan admitted that she may have said "gosh" or "darn it." Mr. Kennedy said she threw a $40 silver hand mirror at either him or another member of the cast. Miss Blondell said it was not a mirror, it was a Kleenex and she wished it had been a brick. Princeton Police Chief Edward Mahan said all he knew was that...