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...Miss It. At Swan Lake, N. Y., Motorist Samuel Liebowitz, a stranger, followed a native's directions, made a left turn on a bumpy road in a fog, presently came to a man waving a lantern, stopped, found himself out on a railroad trestle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 19, 1942 | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...Doubter. In Lambertville, N.J., nervous Motorist Batista Linco explained he had been driving on 224 consecutive learner's permits over the past 25 years because he had flunked his first driver's test, had been unsure of himself ever since, doubted he could learn all the rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 12, 1942 | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

...Minneapolis radio station: "Why those sons of bitches!" There was a Kansas hunter: "I guess our hunting will be confined to those God damned slant-eyed bastards from now on." In Phoenix: "How many of the yellow so and so's have we killed?" A San Francisco motorist: "Down the street I almost ran over a Jap on a motorcycle. Maybe I should have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What the People Said | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

Creeper. In Albuquerque, N.Mex., Judge E. C. Gober fined a motorist $100 on the ground that no sober motorist would drive consistently at three miles an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 10, 1942 | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...motorist, onetime King of the Highway, looked more like a funny-cartoon pedestrian each week. A great many Eastern gas tanks were dry, and hell had seen no furies like the motorists who did not have enough gas left to drive around to a service station for gas that was not there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gas Pains | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

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