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...nights this week, trains of snorting vans lumbered up to Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and disgorged rich cargoes from Detroit. Inside the hotel, swarms of workmen sweated under floodlights to turn the Grand Ballroom into the fanciest automobile showroom on earth. On a wide stage, they set up an endless chain conveyor and a revolving platform for the new models; across the room, they reared a 25-ft. pylon above a cluster of jewel-bright auto engines...
More cautious and staid in its praise, but still loaded with adjectives, was the New York Times. Allison Danzig dubbed the Crimson as "one of the cleverest, fanciest, and hardest-hitting Harvard elevens since Percy Haughton...
...Nothing like these black and crimson clad heroes has been seen since the dear dead days that seemed beyond recall for Harvard through years of mediocrity ... (this is) one of the cleverest fanciest, and hardest-hitting Harvard elevens since the days of Percy Haughton...
...late next fall, when the hammers are stilled and the plaster dust settled, Manhattan's sedate Times will be settled in one of the fanciest quarters in the business. An air-conditioned building with pastel walls, glass-brick partitions and functional furniture, it has cozy bedroom suites for executives, playrooms and dining rooms for all 3,300 staffers and a city room so vast that the city editor has to use a microphone to page his far-flung reporters...
...DiMaggio, baseball's most talented star, haggled with his bosses for $75,000 and signed on the dotted line for about $10,000 less than that. Last year, he struggled along on $43,750. The pay boost made DiMag the fanciest-salaried New York Yankee since Babe Ruth (who once drew $80,000) and put him in a class with baseball's two rich kids: Ted Williams, whose big bat is worth $75,000 a year to the Boston Red Sox, and Cleveland's $80,000-or-more-a-year pitcher, Bob Feller...