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Comeback. In Cleveland, questioned by a policeman, Motorist Theodore Kramer produced his driver's license with the address of the state penitentiary on it, was hauled back to his cell from which he had escaped a week earlier...
Lube Job. In Tucson, Ariz., after he was flagged down at a school-zone crossing by an eleven-year-old girl school guard who carefully jotted down his license number, startled Motorist Joe Chin was told: "I'll forget all about it for a quarter...
...greater worries plague the used-car dealers. They fear that the compacts, priced in the same range as late-model used cars, will wreck their market. If that happens, the market for new cars would be hard hit; if a motorist cannot get a fair price for his old car, he will not be eager to trade it in on a new car. On the other hand, some optimistic secondhand dealers argue that the buyer in the $2,000 class will prefer a roomy, late-model car to a compact. "The man who has been in the habit of buying...
...Bullfighters commonly reserve up to one-third of a season's take for newspaper, radio and TV critics, who might otherwise ungraciously give top billing to the bulls. For pesos the journalists make lackluster movies seem works of art, and prizefighters jewels of virtuosity. And woe betide the motorist who, after an accident, neglects to grease a police reporter's outstretched palm: next day's story may suggest the innocent driver was drunk or (if he is married) in the diverting company of an unidentified señorita...
...Shell Gasoline (British version) features a simple-minded motorist with an asthmatic car. "Uncontrolled ignition, old boy!" explains a Mayfair type in clipped U accents. The motorist fills up on Shell and drives off, as the announcer cackles: "Happy at last. Good old George...