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Weathered In. In Reno, when his sedan stalled in a snowdrift, Robert Gibbs hopped out, trampled the hood down to the engine, ripped off the ventilator flaps, pulled off the door handles, smashed all the windows, walked away...
General Motors' new models looked the same on the outside, but under the hood there were some important changes. Biggest improvement was the use of a new carburetor in the Cadillac, Buick and Oldsmobile. When the accelerator is pushed down more than halfway, the carburetor supplies the engine with 45% more air than formerly, boosts horsepower as much as 20%. The new Cadillac is boosted from 160 to 190 h.p. The Buick Roadmaster, which also has a higher compression ratio, is increased from 152 to 170 h.p., and Oldsmobile from 135 to 160. The three cars also have...
...Informer. In Tulsa, Bootlegger Eugene Mace fell afoul of the law when cops, investigating his stuck car horn, looked under the hood, found 1) a large bug causing a short circuit in the horn wires, 2) 16 bottles of whisky...
...weakling whose weakness made him a Fascist. Carlo Levi (Christ Stopped at Eboli) came a cropper with The Watch, a sympathetic but unfocused look at his postwar land, but Giuseppe Berto followed an uneven first novel (The Sky Is Red) with The Brigand, the story of an Italian Robin Hood which exposed the despair of ordinary people with a fine mixture of candor and sympathy...
...Hood for the poor peasants of his village but succeeds only in bringing misery to them and death to himself. A striking improvement over Berto's first novel, The Sky Is Red (TIME, Oct. 25, 1948), The Brigand shines with the kind of love for the Italian peasant that characterizes Ignazio Silone's novels._It is a tone of love which almost never finds its way into U.S. writing...