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...Ford body since 1949. The new car is 1 in. lower than this year's, and will have wraparound windshields. V-8 horsepower will be stepped up from 130 to around 160. Ford has also spent millions on its powerful (up to 200 h.p.) new Mercury. Fanciest eye catcher: the Montclair, a new road-hugging car that will be close to the lowest in the industry. Last week brothers Henry, Ben and Billy Ford gave everyone a taste of the rugged kind of competition that they intend to serve up. They showed off their Thunderbird sports...
...hours for half the prevailing wage scale, often as little as $10 a month. Yet, on the many occasions when Natsukawa's company has been haled into court, the girls have steadfastly refused to testify against him. Boss Natsukawa, a Buddhist who drives a Cadillac and gives the fanciest geisha parties in Tokyo, used to explain it all by the company policy he calls "K.S.E." (Kindness, Special Quality, Efficiency). "After all," he boasted, spreading his fat hands wide, "Ohmi has never had a strike...
...added the world's biggest tanker to his 100-ship fleet only two weeks ago (TIME, June 14), is not the man to let barnacles grow. Last week, out from a Kiel shipyard for a trial run with Onassis on board sailed his new yacht, probably the fanciest private ship afloat. Called the Christina (after his wife), Onassis' floating palace is a 1,445-ton, 303-ft. Canadian destroyer escort (Stormont) rebuilt into a yacht at an estimated cost of $2,500,000. In the afterdeck is a marble swimming pool, with a mosaic floor that...
Greek-born Shipping Tycoon Aristotle Socrates Onassis, 48, who is under indictment on a charge of conspiring to gyp the U.S. in some postwar deals to buy surplus ships (TIME, Feb. 15), waited for delivery of one of the fanciest yachts to sail since Financier J. P. Morgan's Corsair churned the seagoing carriage-trade routes. In the North German port of Kiel, a 325-ft. frigate is being converted into the Christina, a floating pleasure dome which will be the flagship of Onassis' cargo and tanker fleet. Trimmed in marble, mosaics and lapis lazuli (cost...
Bach's St. Matthew Passion, in a vintage 1939 recording by Willem Mengelberg and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra (Columbia); Respighi's Pines and Fountains of Rome, played by Toscanini and the NBC Symphony and wrapped in one of the fanciest album packages to date (13 pages of photographs of Rome, with text by Vincent Sheean) at no extra cost (Victor...