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...Duryea History...
Sirs: Your issue of Aug. 27 connects me with "Stevens-Duryea." My thanks for your generosity but I have no desire to steal my brother's thunder. I had no direct part in S-D cars but consider myself their grandfather. I took my brother J. Frank from the farm twice and pushed him from shop to shop until he was drawing toolmaker wages. Then hired him for more pay, to assemble my first horseless buggy. He worked for me or my company?the first incorporated in America to build gasoline motor vehicles?for five years. Their successes were...
...Philadelphia Charles E, Duryea...
...Stevens-Duryea), 72, celebrated his golden wedding anniversary by showing lantern slides of his first "gas buggies" (1892), appealing to automobile manufacturers to simplify their motors, revolutionize their designs, eliminate the back seat bounce. Said Inventor Duryea: "With the engine in the rear the seats would come between the front and rear axle and not over the rear axle as in most modern automobiles...
...manager effects a speedy reconciliation between the chorus girl and her first admirer. The mayor mournfully marries them. Only New Yorkers with very special inside knowledge know how closely this plot adheres to Mayor Walker's friendship with Actress Betty Compton, who suddenly married Cinema Director Edward Duryea Dowling last year and left town (TIME, March 2, 1931). Most neatly timed of the topical cinemas which Hollywood has recently furnished, this one is also one of the least instructive, most diverting. More vulgar than Mayor Walker, Mayor Kingston has himself measured for a suit in the presence of guests...