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Esmerelda II is no ordinary car. True, she was spawned of a punch press and a Detroit turret lathe sometime in the early '30s, just like millions of others. But there the resemblance ends.
Once, it was the gold brick. In Montreal last week it was the atom. Seven smooth swindlers dumped $500,000 worth of atom-bomb stock on scores of gullible Quebeckers. One investor, a Montreal physician, reportedly bit to the tune of $20,000. Since the atom bomb was top secret...
He remembers Susan's (Joan Fontaine) sister and brother-in-law (Rosemary De Camp and Henry Morgan), brat-beset and waterlogged in poverty; and how, despite that portentous domestic scene, he and Susan got engaged that evening. He remembers the long, sickening period after he was laid off (from...
Spike also invented an "anvilphone," a "crashophone" (to break glass), a "poon-tangophone" (a cigar box and a lathe) and a "latrinophone" (a toilet seat strung with catgut, which went over big on a European U.S.O. tour). To record his Hotchi Cornia, Spike rented a goat that "naa-a-a...
The National Academy prizewinners were mostly repetitions of familiar tricks. Guy Pène du Bois took top $1,200 honors with Cocktails, a collection of lathe-turned automatons on a lawn. Nevertheless, both shows contained a few really original approaches to painting-for instance, U.S.A. Two Cents a Mile...