Word: osborne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congratulations to Cartoonist Osborn [Jan. 28] for his jab at the atrociously crass '57 cars-following fast on the clashed colors of '56. Ugh! MARCIA MASCIA Port Chester...
...Robert Osborn is so right. Would suggest that the Detroit planners make a survey on what the American people desire in the way of a design instead of trying to outdo each other in seeing who can put the most of what on which and where. MRS. R. B. FROCK Pasadena, Calif...
...Osborn is a damned good cartoonist, but it is obvious that the people like such cars. Were the general taste somewhat more refined, Detroit would soon have to change. Why do Americans like such hideous cars? ANATOL SPIRO Copenhagen...
...flanges, they have been the object of an extraordinary amount of comment. Some of it has been admiring, some has been funny, and some-from motorists who want more fish and less fin -has been downright bitter. Last week in the New Republic (circ. 29,453), Cartoonist Robert Osborn had his say (see cuts) with sharp effect...
Exurbanite Osborn (TIME, April 6, 1953), who personally drives a four-passenger 1951 British-made Riley ("It's the most marvelous green color and the wheels aren't square"), thinks the 1957 cars are "ludicrous" ("Why, you can't even get into the things"). His idea of what a car should be: a cross between a French Bugatti and the 1914 Packard he grew up in. One is beautifully disciplined; the other, "once you "got in you could walk around in it." Asks Osborn: "Why is it, when Detroit can produce an engine as fine as they...