Word: drivers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crack British flyer Amy Johnson, who angrily enlisted as a lorry driver when the Civil Air Guard turned her down as an aviatrix, was fined 10s. in a Cardiff, South Wales, court for driving without a license, ?3 for not stopping when ordered, ?2 for careless driving, 178. 6d. for not observing blackout headlight restrictions. Total fine: $25.50. The arresting constable complained that Amy used her nails on him, but she held her fingers up to the judge, said, "You can see I haven't got the kind of nails which scratch." To the officer's accusation that...
Oldsmobile boasts one of 1940's two major mechanical innovations (the other: Sealed Beam headlights) for its three series: "Hydra-Matic Drive" (a fluid flywheel combined with an automatic transmission which eliminates the clutch pedal, leaves nothing for the driver's left foot to do but play with the headlight beam at night). Prices: $765 to $1,075 (Hydra-Matic, $57 extra). Low, racy, graceful, Olds has a new eight-cylinder Ninety and its Sixty & Seventy sixes...
...George) Orson Welles, whose radio play War of the Worlds convinced many Jerseyites that Martians had captured Newark Airport, arrived there on a garbage truck after the taxi taking him to his plane broke down. Grateful for the ride, Bogeyman Welles cleaned up an old joke and remarked: "The driver was decent enough. When someone asked him what he had aboard, he said 'Actors and garbage.' That gave us top billing...
Newsboy, candy-butcher, Harvard athlete-in three summers as a bus-driver he made $5,000-Kennedy's life has gone in the sections and jerks of a fast freight train. He was a bank examiner for 18 months, a bank president for three years (youngest in the U. S., at 25). For 20 months he built ships for Bethlehem Steel and for an Assistant Secretary of the Navy named Franklin Roosevelt. For two years, nine months he was president of the Film Booking Offices of America, for five months chairman of Keith-Albee-Orpheum, for six weeks special...
...hopes of driving an ambulance, because she wants to "do something for France."* Said she: "The French are the bravest people I have ever seen, the most gallant. ... I owe so much of my artistic life to them." When Miss Moore was asked if she were a good driver, her husband, Spanish Cinemactor Valentin Perera, interrupted: "No, she isn't. I am not going to ride in her ambulance. I will have...