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...Honk. In Glendale, Calif., the flames that enveloped L. L. Biggs's garage short-circuited the starter of his car and jolted it out to safety, short-circuited the horn and awakened Biggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 10, 1948 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...Hempstead, N.Y. judge ordered one Anthony Koskakowski to cease blowing his automobile horn at girls on the street. At the press of a button, the horn cried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, May 10, 1948 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...sleep four in a room in the Philadelphia Hotel. The streets are crowded with Arab Legionnaires in spiked helmets with Beau Geste backflaps, Bedouins in rags of lacelike complexity, donkeys, camels, jeeps, trucks, U.S. cars. Through this tangled mass, a Legion jeep, mounting a Bren gun and a loud horn, clears the way for three white-helmeted motorcyclists preceding King Abdullah's lordly Cadillac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Arrivals & Departures | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...Awakening. Many an M.P. missed the point in St. Laurent's words, as decorous as his dark suit and starched collar. Standing at Prime Minister King's elbow, he followed his prepared text closely through heavy, horn-rimmed glasses. Occasionally he emphasized a point with a characteristic twist of his head to the right. As he droned on for 87 minutes, M.P.s dozed (one Liberal backbencher had to be awakened by a messenger), or padded out to the lobbies for a smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: New Credo | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Literary Caveman Horace McCoy has driven to an absurd extreme the hardboiled, feel-my-muscles style of James Cain and Dashiell Hammett, and, to add cultural tone, has dipped into the bowely bathos of the wasn't-Bix-wonderful, oh-blow-that-beautiful-horn school. The result is a gutter-minded, gutter-tongued shocker of alley-cat sex, sadism and unmourned murders-relieved only by odes to Satchmo's and Muggsy's horn blowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Guy | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

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