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...years passed, many a farmer pumped small fortunes into the scheme. Some, like 65-year-old Sherman Duryea (who got "Ford" certificates supposedly worth $463,637) not only sank all their savings, but were drafted into promoting it. The swindlers gave Duryea four safes, told him they contained $85 million in cash, and instructed him to guard them with his life. Since he did not know they were stuffed with old newspapers, this made him a wonderful salesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Great Ford Swindle | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...Auto Bug M. M. (Wheels in His Head) Musselman has picked up in his lively retrace of U.S. automobile history, from linen-duster days to the present. He records all the major milestones, from the first plans drawn by George Selden of Rochester (1877), the first model of the Duryea brothers (1893), the water-cooled engine (1895), the steering wheel (1900), the windshield (1905), the left-hand drive (1909), the enclosed body (1911), the electric self-starter (1912), right down to such latter-day innovations as freewheeling (1930) and automatic transmission (1940s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mist on the Motor Car | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

Strikingly photographed in black & white, the film is directed with an eye to realistic detail, an ear for the script's frequently natural dialogue and a knack for building suspense. It also has some good performances by Dan Duryea, John McIntire and Millard Mitchell, as well as Actors Stewart and McNally. Heroine Shelley Winters, who seems lost in all the uproar, might as well have been lost in the script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 19, 1950 | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

First period: Post (Hudner), Ross (Tufts), Post (Hudner), Patriquin (Tufts); Second period: Birdsall (Plissner), Hudner (unassisted), Waring (Hudner). Duryea (Tufts), Plissner (Birdsall), Duryea (unassisted); Third period: Hayward (Tufts), Plissner (unassisted), Davis (unassisted), Ross (Tufts), Birdsall (unassisted), Waring (Plissner); Fourth period: Hudner (Baldwin), Yost (Baldwin), Ross (Tufts), Thayer (unassisted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Team Beats Tufts, 13-7, After Slow First Half | 4/20/1950 | See Source »

Attack: Ross, Patriguin, and Duryea; Defense: Hayward, Tyler, Schneider; Midfield: Egan, Gerbis, and Bruns; Goal: Cole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Squad Expected To Top Tufts Team Today | 4/18/1950 | See Source »

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