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...profitable that dealers competed ruthlessly to get them. Some dealers, ready cash in their hands, actually trail new cars through the streets of London. One day recently on Portland Street (London's auto row), a man had just pulled his new Sunbeam over to the curb to greet a friend when a dealer raced out of a nearby showroom and offered ?200 above list price for the car. The prize was worth the chase. A 1946 Armstrong worth ?991 new is worth ?1,850 ($7,640) secondhand, a ?352 Ford is worth ?710 ($2,932) once it has been...
Last week a group of the faithful were rapturously on hand to greet Founder Buchman as he landed to "cure . . . Britain's and the world's ills." Tired and feeble at 67, surrounded by a company of 105 disciples, the Founder's principal armament was a trunkful of plays "that answer the headlines." With these he plans to tour the provinces for several months, then settle down in the Group's newly purchased ?165,000 Westminster Theater...
...What is the correct way to greet the headwaiter...
Like the best of friends, Mme. Chiang Kai-shek and Mme. Chou En-lai-wife of Communist China's No. 1 negotiator-joined last week at Chungking's windy Paishihyi airfield to greet General George C. Marshall and his handsome, hazel-eyed wife, Katherine. Soldier-Diplomat Marshall, after a nightlong Peiping study of Manchuria's erupting war, was less impressed by tea-drinking at the top levels than by bullets in the boondocks...
Waiting at the dockside to greet her, and to make political capital, was a Communist delegation led by Soviet Ambassador Alexandr Bogomolov. Beside the beaming, suntanned envoy was Madame Bogomolov, carrying a big armload of flowers. While cameras clicked, she exchanged her bouquet for a sheaf of wheat. Briskly the Voroshilov's crew opened the hatches; there, as the lyrical Agence France Presse reported: "Russian wheat glittered under the sun of France." Later, bands played the French and Russian anthems and Ambassador Bogomolov made a speech in praise of Franco-Russian amity. Then 100 token sacks of Russian amity...