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Turn-of-the-century Detroiters considered it a pretty good gag: a team of horses pulling a "horseless carriage" through the streets day after day, with a sign fastened to the auto: "This is the only way you can drive a Winton." The Winton agency failed to see the humor. Just because they had refused to refund a dissatisfied customer's money, the fellow was taking his revenge in this crude manner...
...match under. A onetime symphony trombonist who now makes his living putting out cartoons for Walt Disney, Kimball has a full-scale railroad in the yard of his San Gabriel home. After he restored a 1914 Ford to shining grandeur, he became an earnest member of the local Horseless Carriage Club. The band got started when he found some other jazz-record fans around the Disney lot; before long they had dusted off their long-neglected instruments to try a few licks themselves. Their first name: the "Hugga-jeedy Eight," because someone thought their rhythm sounded like the sputtering chug...
...costumes have a bustley charm; but the girls who wear them are addicted to Technicolor simpers. The love stories of the two young couples (Dennis Morgan and Dorothy Malone, Don DeFore and Janis Paige) reach a high point when they go for a spin in the park in a horseless carriage-a singularly low-voltage form of sparking. Not much else happens to them except that they pair off and get married. One lad goes to jail for a short stretch, while the other becomes an alderman. It seems likely that the jailbird gets the best of the deal...
Died. Reginald William Rives, 86, leading figure in the dying patrician sport of coaching, member of the Coaching Club since 1883; in Manhattan. Stubborn Socialite-Horseman Rives resisted vigorously as newfangled horseless carriages crowded coaches off the streets, won a 1906 lawsuit in which he charged that an auto had ruined the nerves of one of his horses. He became a gallant last-survivor of the era of beaver hats and smartly tooled four-in-hands...
...Hartford, Conn., owners of 80 antique automobiles donned linen dusters, set out on a 500-mile drive through New England in a revival of the Glidden Tour (an annual road race for horseless carriages which Financier Charles Glidden established in 1905 to popularize automobiling). The driver most in need of a horse: William E. Swigart Jr. of Huntingdon, Pa., whose 1908 Ford blew a piston head, broke a timing gear, contracted radiator leaks and collapse of the spark coil, and had seven flat tires before he got to the Hartford starting line...