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...televising without permission a 36year-old film, Whirl of Life, starring Irene and Vernon Castle, CBS, Ed Sullivan and the Ford Motor Co. were sued for $250,000 in damages by Mrs. Irene Castle McLaughlin Enzinger, who felt that the film was not fair to her late dancer husband. Said she: "Mr. Castle's clothes look oldfashioned, his hat is strange-looking, his coat is too short. He wears a putty nose in parts of it. I didn't want the Castles to be seen in a ridiculous light, to be laughed at by people today who never...
...shift to automatic transmissions, automen have added a shoal of new words to the language. Most of them, as might be expected, end in "matic" (e.g., Hydra-Matic, Gyro-Matic, Ultramatic). Last week the Ford Motor Co. announced a new automatic transmission of its own, developed with Borg-Warner Corp. for the 1951 Mercurys. Its name: "Merc-O-Matic." In a few months the company will bring out a new transmission, optional on all 1951 Fords. The name, to nobody's great surprise: "Ford-O-Matic...
Gable shows more emotion in taking a racing motor apart than in his wooden-faced love scenes (sample dialogue-She: "You're quite a guy." He: "You're quite a dame...
...midget radio) reduces the number of "scanned" lines on each screen from the 525 used for ordinary telecasts to the 405 lines required by the CBS system. To get telecasts in color, set owners must spend another $75-$100 for a converter. The converter is a whirling, motor-driven disc which slides in front of the TV screen (see cut) and filters the image through red, blue and green colors at such speed that they are blended by the human eye into a full-color picture...
...going to Detroit to check up on the great Ford share-the-wealth plan. When he got home, he went to the police. A few days later, the cops caught Marie Fuller impersonating the baritone "Benson" over the telephone. They raided her apartment, found stacks of spurious Ford Motor Co. stationery and the records of the conspiracy: $1,300 from one 66-year-old pensioner, $81,000 from the plumber, $110,000 from two farmers-more than...