Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ford Star Jubilee (Sat. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Twentieth Century, with Orson Welles, Betty Grable, Keenan Wynn...
Only Playwright-Actor-Producer Noel Coward managed to give the door a backspin. After two shows (Together with Music, Blithe Spirit), Sponsor Ford Motor Co. decided Coward was "too sophisticated" and vetoed his third show, a version of his 1943 play Present Laughter, scheduled for May. Said Coward amiably: "If they don't like it, I'll do another for them. After all, I've written 26 plays and it shouldn't take long to whip out a new one." Mollified, Ford settled for a TV interpretation of Coward's superpatriotic This Happy Breed...
NATIONAL AUTO SHOW, the U.S. equivalent of the big European shows, will be held again this year for the first time in 16 years. Show in New York Coliseum next December will include all U.S. makes, except possibly Ford, which has sometimes stayed out of the show in the past...
...PRICE CLASS. Ford Customline Victoria 8, 20.52 miles per gallon, 47.76 ton miles per gallon; Plymouth Belvedere 8, 20.67 m-P-g-> 47-73 t.m.p.g.; Chevrolet Bel Air Sport Sedan 6, 21.17 ni.p.g., 47.21 t.m.p.g.; Chevrolet Bel Air Sport Sedan 8, 20.70 m.p.g., 46.37 t.m.p.g.; Ford Fairlane Victoria 8, 18.74 ni.p.g., 44.24 t.m.p.g...
Died. William Bushnell Stout, 75, famed aviation pioneer, builder of the first (1918) internal-strut, cantilever-wing U.S. aircraft, the first commercial monoplane (in 1919) and the first all-metal plane (a Navy torpedo bomber in 1922), co-designer of the famed Ford Tri-motor ("Tin Goose") in 1925; of a heart attack; in Phoenix, Ariz...