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Love of Puttering. Throughout his career, Attlee remained as egalitarian as the Britain he hoped to build. His wife Violet often chauffeured him about in the family Hillman on his political rounds. He wore frayed clothes, smoked a little black pipe and cultivated the Englishman's love of puttering about a garden. The son of a lawyer, he attended Oxford and was a staunch Tory until he visited a London slum. The squalor turned the young lawyer into a social worker and socialist. When the Labor Party split in 1935 over the issue of pacifism, Attlee, a World...
This, perhaps, is the only history that matters. But for the record, lead guitar John Hillman found harp-player Peter Ivers playing on a subway, and singer-bass player Gilbert Moses met Tschudin putting on plays in the NYU Drama Department. The previous friendship of Tschudin and Ivers brought the duos together, and the four auditioned for a drummer, luckily finding Jay Rubero. Ivers '68, a classics major who looks like a cross between Dennis the Menace and a Marvel superhero, proudly tells us that the new rock-and-roll group is based in Boston so he can finish college...
...soloists, the five are diverse and brilliant. Ivers, the most aggressive, plays harp at capacity volume, punctuating his solos with sharp staccato blasts shaking him from head to toes. Tschudin, scorning more pedestrian methods, gets high on his organ and builds climatic crescendos of musical phrases. As for Hillman, the other four call him the Ghost Rider, because "he can draw fast enough to shoot a knife that's being thrown at him." He has a wonderful habit of bending the final electronic note of his beautiful guitar solos--a habit which invaliably draws a series of awe-struck screams...
...told, Chrysler will funnel some $56 million into Rootes, which produces Humber, Hillman, Sunbeam and Singer automobiles and three lines of trucks. Half will be in the form of an outright loan; the rest will come from the purchase of additional shares, which will push Chrysler's total stock investment in Rootes to $93 million. To damp the fiery protests in Parliament, most of which came from the Labor backbenchers, the complex refinancing arrangements will also call for Britain, through the state-run Industrial Reorganization Corp., to hold about 13% of Rootes voting stock...
...late afternoon in Saigon when Dr. Phan Quang Dan, 49, set out for an important session of South Viet Nam's Constituent Assembly. His green, 1955 Hillman was parked under a tall tamarind tree, and he backed it off the sidewalk onto the street. "I heard a dragging noise when I first started to back up," he recalled later, "and I knew right then it was probably a mine or plastique." The doctor's diagnosis was correct. An explosion ripped a two-foot hole through the front seat. Dan escaped with light shrapnel wounds in his legs...