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...this point, the Yard began to express some curiosity about John Christie. Most everybody remembered him-a thin, high-domed fellow who wore horn-rimmed glasses, worked somewhere as a trucking clerk, liked to take photographs of Netting Hill kiddies in the streets and Notting Hill chippies in their bareskins. "Always so polite and neatly dressed," said Mrs. Rose Bangle. ". . . Never passed a lady in the street without raising his hat." Checking back, the police found that John Christie had been the principal government witness in the case of his tenant-predecessor Tim Evans; near the end of his trial...
...program opened with Bechoven's Second Symphony-aside from the poor horn playing, a through satisfying rendition. The orchestra achieved dynamic contrasts, and the whole performance was well-disciplined, without being stiff...
Early in January, in Caracas, a bull drove a horn into Dominguín's upper right thigh, almost severing the big muscle in front of the bone. The wound, his eighth and worst, required an operation, performed in Mexico. Last week, still convalescing, he prepared to open the season in Bogotá. Over breakfast with a few friends, he mused, "I once loved bullfighting like madness. Now I've lost the joy of fighting. That's when fatal things happen. Today I'll make twelve, thirteen, fourteen thousand dollars-but it doesn't seem...
There was an assured knock on the door of our room in the reaches of the House. Before anyone could answer, an intense young man with horn-rimmed glasses and a rumpled blue suit strode...
They landed Army contracts, and soon Studebaker wagons were rolling into battle at Gettysburg and other Civil War actions. Custer made his last stand on the Little Big Horn separated from his supply tram of Studebakers. In the Boer War, Correspondent Winston Churchill was captured with a Studebaker wagon. Orders poured in from all over the world, and by 1887 the company was touting itself as "The Biggest Vehicle House in the World," with annual sales of $2,000,000. Its most popular buggy was the high, wide & handsome "Izzer"-so called to distinguish it from a has-been...