Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Done Up Nice." It seemed like a lot of money. He never drank-New York was so exciting that it drove his imagination crazy without it-but he "loved life, done up nice." On Saturday nights he dressed in his best and saw the city. He ate at Healy's famed restaurant on 66th Street, and watched "how the dainty people acted there." He saw every show in town. He worked hard to lose his brogue-he was determined not to go on being a gawky country...
...their unending search for a solution to crossing accidents, roadbuilders have evolved complicated, twisted approaches to mainline highways. But the human element is still the same. One night last week Driver Peter Motola blundered on to the wrong approach to the Union Turnpike in Queens, N.Y., drove into the wrong oneway lane on the turnpike. Result: a head-on crash (see cut). The toll: six dead; five injured...
Last week, on Founder's Day, President Harry Truman drove to Girard College to help celebrate its centennial. The college has a 42-acre campus whose classical buildings rise like a bit of ancient Athens out of a drab part of midtown Philadelphia. Girard is not really a college at all, but the richest boarding school in the world (its endowment: $90 million). Harry Truman inspected everything, put away an enormous roast beef luncheon, accepted a pupil-fashioned bronze statuette of the Founder, listened to a 16-year-old pianist play Chopin, planted a pair of sapling twinoaks...
...Grand Prix is no Sunday drive. The tortuous 198-mile course zigzags through narrow city streets, swoops uphill & down. In the 1937 race, a Frenchman drove over a cliff into the sea, and one Italian ended Up with his radiator embedded in the ticket office of Monte Carlo's railroad station. Last week, after 50 laps (halfway), eleven of the 19 cars in the race had quit. But Igor, gripping the wheel of his No. 36, a crimson Ferrari, was still in the running. Then it happened...
Incriminating Evidence. In The Bronx,N.Y., Robert Rogers noticed that his car had been broken into, quickly drove to the police station, delivered the culprit he had noticed hiding huddled in the back seat...