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Roman Catholics and high-church Protestants may give rosaries in all shapes and sizes-from an "ecclesiastically approved recording rosary permanently encased in plastic" and designed to clip onto the gearshift lever of one's car, to a "pearl and silver finished rosary" with "a special clasp that converts it into a most attractive double-strand necklace...
Into his place, in as automatic a move as a G.M. gearshift, stepped Albert Bradley, a man little known but easy to know. Bright, twinkling-eyed Al Bradley is a contrast to his great predecessor and good friend. Sloan, a graven-faced Connecticut Yankee, practiced prohibition for years, wears a stickpin, dresses with a flourish, disdains tobacco and sniffs at sports. Bradley is a roly-poly (5 ft. 6 in., 160 Ibs.) Briton who arrived in the U.S. at the age of seven, a casual dresser who often appears in mismatched pants and coat, a keen southpaw golfer...
Another crowd-stopper was Citroën's grey canvas-topped Deux Chevaux (for its 2 h.p.-10 U.S. h.p.), a famed little low-priced, four-passenger model sporting an automatic gearshift, the first in a cheap French car. The gears change automatically as the engine increases and decreases its speed. If Deux Chevaux is successful, Citroën will concentrate on producing clutchless cars...
...most successful U.S. cattle breeders (Aberdeen-Angus). Hackney has a daughter and two sons, one son at Princeton ('53). He particularly remembers Stevenson's Hudson Super-Six roadster, which, to be kept in high gear, had to have someone sitting beside the driver to hold the gearshift. This need for a companion in his car, Hackney feels, may have helped Stevenson gain sixth place, in a field of 22, in the yearbook classification, "Thinks He Is the Biggest Fusser [i.e., Ladies' Man]." Hackney and Stevenson toured Spain in the summer of 1921, several times got into trouble...
...British Industries Fair, which opened last week at Birmingham. Though it has not yet completed its bench tests, London newspapers hailed the gas turbine as the advance guard of a power revolution. A vehicle driven by a gas turbine, the experts explained, would have no cooling system, no gearshift (except for reversing and extra-low gear), no continuous ignition system. It would be almost vibrationless, would need little lubrication, and would burn low-priced fuel such as kerosene or diesel...