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...rawboned, rangy, veteran Canadian woodsman is Norman Charles Phillips, 24-year-old reporter for the Toronto Star. Fortnight ago the Star sent Norman Phillips, driving an old flivver, north to Sudbury to cover the escape of two German prisoners from a nearby concentration camp. Phillips stayed five days, saw the prisoners safely rounded up, wrote his story, headed back toward Toronto. Nearing home he met a fair-haired man in grey trousers and blue coat, walking toward him along the highway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Newsman's Break | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...When Master Cooper recently switched from child parts to juveniles, he sternly put away childish things. Among them: a red-upholstered super-flivver with nine horns, seven headlights, a 22-push-button dashboard. Cinemactor Cooper now travels in a sedate maroon coupe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 11, 1940 | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...main line from Cheyenne to Denver, where the cow-country meets the mountains, lies the brisk Colorado city of Greeley. Into Greeley with a flivver-pulled trailer in the fall of 1930 steamed one Elzy Alumbaugh ("Buzz") Hoover, 28, husky, square-cut, leather-lunged, with a diploma from Fred Reppart's School of Auctioneering, a wife, two children and $10. He found a place to park in Greeley's junky fringe, pushed his gallon hat back off his forehead, and got down to business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Prairie Showman | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Last week, at the Berlin Automobile Show, for the second time in a year Adolf Hitler posed alongside a gleaming sample of his $396 Strength Through Joy flivver. Well did he know, but nothing did he say about the wretchedly slow progress in production of the Volkswagen, which was conceived more than five years ago but will not be on the market until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Hitler Hobby | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...story-book adventures of the pioneers who crossed the North American prairie wastes in their Conestaga wagons influenced David Hume '40 into priming up his own prairie schooner, a model A flivver of uncertain vintage, for a Christmas holiday jaunt through Canada...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUNIOR RUINS FORD AFTER USING SNOWBANK AS A BEAKE | 1/12/1939 | See Source »

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