Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revolution. The '48 Buick Roadmaster, said the division, will have no clutch, clutch pedal, or customary gear shift. For normal driving, the motorist will merely have to push a button; the accelerator will do the rest. There is also a reverse gear and "emergency low" for snow and mud. With rising production and a backlog of 520,000 unfilled orders, Buick hopes next year to pass Plymouth, into third place behind Chevrolet and Ford...
Some will remember Princeton's 9 to 6 victory in Palmer Stadium in 1939 when coffin corner punts stifled the Crimson offensive; some will recall Franny Loe's 88-yard run through the rain and mud in 1941, also in Palmer Stadium, to give the visitors a 6 to 4 victory; others will remember last fall's 13 to 12 triumph for the Crimson at Nassau, as Harlow's team withstood a frantic Tiger assault and Carl Libert's passes in the final minutes of play...
...until Walter Camp, in the early Eighties, told his men that "football is tow thirds able the neck," that the game ceased to look like a traditional Freshman-Sophomore mud fight...
...reply, confident Barney Samuel, who is not wasting much energy campaigning, cried: "Mud-slinger." The response of voters was much livelier. Attendance at Dilworth street rallies zoomed from 50 to 3,000 (for one rally last week, a crowd of 7,500 jammed the busy intersection of Chestnut and Broad). Dilworth himself was not the only attraction. At rallies he was often preceded by Hegeman's string band, one of Philadelphia's famed Mummers'Parade organizations. His family went campaigning with him-and turned out to be just as belligerent as he. Once his wife, Ann, smacked...
Last week, in the mud flats adjoining the Musi River, in a 50-mile enclave only recently cleared by the Dutch of Indonesian insurgents, Palembang started refining stored crude left by the Japanese. The wells, some dynamited and others partly .destroyed by fire, were just beginning to flow. But tough, ruddy-faced Harry A. Gibbon, who had led Standard's task force to Palembang, hopes to have them in full production soon. By summer, he expects" to have Palembang turning out its prewar 45,000 barrels...