Word: musselman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After putting up bail to get Reporter Bradshaw out, News-Star Editor N. B. ("Beachy") Musselman went to work on Harrington. Said a Page One editor's note: "The News-Star has never published the criminal record of Sheriff Jim Harrington before because a man's past is not always indicative of his future actions. However, in the light of [what has happened], the News-Star feels an obligation to publish his past in full. We regret not having done so before." The record, spread across two columns of the paper, showed that Sheriff Harrington had been arrested...
...HORSE! (304 pp.)-M. M. Musselman-Lippincott...
Camouflage for Fear. The Winton yarn is only one of the curious gleanings that California Auto Bug M. M. (Wheels in His Head) Musselman has picked up in his lively retrace of U.S. automobile history, from linen-duster days to the present. He records all the major milestones, from the first plans drawn by George Selden of Rochester (1877), the first model of the Duryea brothers (1893), the water-cooled engine (1895), the steering wheel (1900), the windshield (1905), the left-hand drive (1909), the enclosed body (1911), the electric self-starter (1912), right down to such latter-day innovations...
Bates for Dates. Author Musselman lavishes all his affection, and most of his space, on pre-World War I cars, including the Stanley Steamer ("a dilly of a car"). The modern chromium-plated "monster" -"overly long, overly wide, overly powerful"-leaves him cold. Around 1900, manufacturers were afraid to make automobiles look unlike buggies; in 1950, says Musselman, "most salesmen are afraid they'll have a car that won't look like an automobile." The result: radiator cap ornaments, "despite the fact that there hasn't been an exposed radiator cap in at least 15 years," engines...