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...California friends, who were cruising on the Stella Polaris. We had made all sorts of arrangements for their brief stay in Morocco. On greeting Bernard Ford, one of the Pacific Coast's leading investment brokers, we asked him to choose between a flying trip to Marrakech or a motor excursion to Rabat. He answered: "Look here, before anything else let me go to a newsstand. I want to get the TIME copies I've missed since we left New Orleans...
...group to appear among the big names were automobile dealers; at least ten appeared with incomes above $75,000. Springfield, Ill.'s Chevrolet Dealer E. W. Bates ($192,784) earned more than General Motors President Charles E. Wilson ($166,100) and almost as much as Ford Motor Co.'s President Henry Ford II ($200,000). Actually, the list was not a true measure of those with the biggest incomes-as usual, no dividends, royalties or capital gains were included...
...Ford Motor Co. of Canada, Ltd. is not a subsidiary of Ford Motor Co. of Detroit, but the Ford family controls the voting stock...
German national, onetime resident of Sunnyside, L.I., onetime Communist ringmaster in the U.S., who had been jailed in Britain since he was carried, kicking and screaming like a child in a tantrum, from the Polish motor-ship Batory, bound for Gdynia (TIME...
Berliners were happy, but they did not dance in the streets. A few hundred, with garlands of lilac and forsythia, waited quietly under a bright moon to welcome the first motor traffic from the free West. That honor went to U.S. correspondents, who staged a pressmen's circus, racing their cars along the Autobahn (and into the headlines back home). Next day was a school holiday, and the black, red & gold flag of the old Weimar Republic, now the banner of the new West German state, flew everywhere-20,000 flags had been shipped in by Allied airlift...