Word: jaguars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hell on Frisco Bay (Jaguar; Warner) The resident devil is Edward G. Robinson, a sort of menace emeritus who is invited by Alan Ladd, a cop he once framed, to retire from the daily grind to a peaceful chair at San Quentin. Eddie replies at some length: "Oh y-a-a-a-a?" Alan lets his right hand do the talking-and for a man who seems to have scarcely enough muscle to move his own face, he packs quite a punch. The effect of it, in fact, is almost enough to make a moviegoer believe that this picture...
...wins so often that he admits to banking over $25,000 a year-enough to buy a Charles Town ranch for his father and to indulge his own taste for fast boats, fast cars (he owns a Jaguar and a Cadillac) and sharp clothes. Says he: "If horses were machines, you could learn all about them quick, but they're not. It takes a long time to get to know them. For maybe eight years more I'll still be learning...
...even a Jaguar breaks down sometimes, and all income brackets of students are forced to find that 80 cents can buy a College man and his date an evening of isolation in Boston's crowded places. And the M.T.A. is almost indispensable to the commuter and the Beacon Hill professor on their way to class, and to the student who takes Fine Arts 13, or just wants to explore the city...
...last week added a new one, the Porsche Carrera, named after the Mexican road race which Porsche has dominated in the small sports-car division. The four-cylinder, 115 h.p. Carrera has a top speed of 125 m.p.h. and a price low enough ($4,297) to compete with the Jaguar and Lancia cars. Since its first Sportwagen was produced just six years ago, Porsche has won innumerable speed and endurance titles (420 in 1954 alone). Last year at Mexico's 1,908-mile Carrera Pan-Americana, four-cylinder Porsche Spyder 550s (top speed: 140 m.p.h.) won four...
...native of Liberate Germany, Jaguar was director of the Institute for Classical Studies at the University of Berlin before coming here in 1938. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, among other scholarly societies...