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Visually, the Master Six differs radically from former models. The V-radiator is narrower and more sloping, the unit fenders are highly contoured in their streamlining, and the windshield not only slopes back steeply, but it also is slightly V-shaped, causing all the forepart of the car to flow smoothly into the body. Bumper, radiator grille, horizontal hood louvres, running board pattern, fittings and spare tire mountings are all new in design. There are also important improvements in body comfort and spaciousness. The wheel-base has been increased to 113 inches, and an even greater increase in body space...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Survey of 1935 Automobiles | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

...Sighs") because so many have waited there whom he has refused to see. The only entrance to his garden is too narrow for a fat man to pass, but the slender poet slips through easily. As a garden ornament the Italian Government erected at huge expense the entire forepart and bridge of the battleship Puglia, complete with searchlights and a working gun turret. Here Signore d'Annunzio fires eccentric salutes when not busy writing verses on small slips of paper bound like a check book. Inside the house every gamut of furnishing is run from monkish asceticism to regal luxury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Will of a Poet | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

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