Word: fours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late Clarence Day's saga of his own family during Manhattan's horsecar era. Day's own chronicle has no plot, no love interest, no mighty triumphs, no major catastrophes-only crusty, rambunctious Father, who lost almost every set-to; helpless, fluttering Mother, who won; and four redheaded boys. But Playwrights Lindsay & Grouse have turned the whole thing into a spirited, likable stage comedy. They have taken the sting out of Father...
Plymouth: built on the 1940 Plymouth car chassis, with regular 84 h.p. motor; four models, station-wagon $870, pick-up delivery $620.71, panel delivery $720, utility sedan $699. Feature: Plymouth car styling in front...
...Four Wheel Drive Auto Co.: a $12,900, 200-h.p. dirt truck, powered in front and rear wheels, with ten forward speeds, ten cubic yards capacity, sensitive hydraulic steering, dual controls so that a driver can stand on its running board and drive it under an excavating shovel. Also a $13,000 fire engine that can travel at 75 m.p.h., pump 1,000 gallons of water per minute...
Durant's erudite wife says their house in Great Neck, L. I., is a "factory." The great popularizer planned to work five years on The Life of Greece, cut it to four-and-a-half to get the book out before election year. First draft was written in what Durant calls "the butcher's book," a mighty ledger. He scattered no less than 2,500 source references (to some 200 sources) through the 671 pages of The Life of Greece. Along with these impressive grace notes are other devices, beginning with the price, calculated to put the stuff...
...which, as head of the Foreign Press Bureau, she is well qualified to speak. She handled the press at Geneva when Spain made its futile appeal before the League, feels that the "cynicism and treachery" of the British and French Governments reached their highest points there. Of the four-month battle of the Ebro: "We fought the last part of that battle with our fists and the fascists fought it with heavy artillery." Franco's advance on Barcelona: "An unarmed man is killed, and then the fascists step on his body to advance." Her pages on the evacuation...