Word: drexler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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William B. Drexler '55, president of the Boston Cinema Society, yesterday charged City Censor Walter Milliken with breach of faith in the licensing of "Birth of a Nation," the film the Cinema Society proposed to show tomorrow and Saturday...
Museum judges shuffled through photographs of some 35 years of automaking, from early Bugattis and Stutz Bearcats to a 1951 Ford. Eliminating limousines and custom-built cars, they finally chose five European and three U.S. models for display. Then Curator Arthur Drexler wrote a learned catalogue discussing their "excellence as works...
...Mercedes (Germany): the oldest car in the show. Drexler called it "an amusingly solemn piece of stagecraft" with "a necklace of lights, bumpers, straps, horns-and handles, undecorated but nevertheless expressively decorative, as were the caps and goggles which used to ornament the serious motorist...
...display, but granted honorable catalogue mention: the 1949 Ford, 1947 Studebaker, 1939 Cadillac 60 Special and 1938 Lincoln Zephyr. Wrote Connoisseur Drexler in an accolade that, by clear implication, also rejected a good many other models that have come down the pike: "These cars contradict the claim that the American public prefers what is ugly, gross, or even vulgar . . . The dollar grin, as the American grille is known abroad, does not represent our best effort...
...FRED I. DREXLER...