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...reptile which he considers so lucky that he uses a large stuffed one with a hole in its back on his library desk for an ashtray. In 1931, after he built El Lagartito for the Gold Cup race, Driver Reis began to tinker with El Lagarto and the Packard motor with which he had replaced her original power plant in 1925. He had her bottom "shingled," to make her ride high in the water instead of cutting through it. When she outdistanced El Lagartito in trial spins, Mr. Reis decided to enter her in the 1931 race...
Outside it was still pitch dark. Bowen Tufts slipped into his overcoat, put on his hat, stepped out of doors. He walked across the lawn and entered the garage, shutting the doors tight behind him. When the motor of his Packard sedan settled down to a quiet hum, he climbed out of the front seat, walked to the rear of the garage. Carefully taking off his hat, he lay down on the cement floor, a foot from the purring exhaust. At seven in the morning the maid found the motor still running. Bowen Tufts was dead...
JIMMIE DALE AND THE MISSING HOUR -Frank L. Packard-Crime Club ($2). Again the Gray Seal plunges into the Underworld and, exhibiting all his old deftness, quickly repays a debt of honor...
...night was announced yesterday, as follows: Professor and Mrs. Jeremiah D. M. Ford, Professor and Mrs. Clarence H. Haring, Professor and Mrs. Andre Morize, Professor and Mrs. Arthur F. Whittem, Colonel and Mrs. Oliver L. Spaulding, Professor and Mrs. Louis J. A. Mercier, Professor Guillermo Rivera, Professor Frederick C. Packard, Jr., Mrs. Daniel H. Marsh, and Mrs. Reid Hunt...
...lazy, illiterate, Spanish-speaking near-whites his own personal monopolies in salt, shoes, milk, meat and tobacco, paid almost nobody honest wages except the over-sized army of 2,500. He toadied to Washington and, in short, applied the usual formula of Caribbean tyranny. He has an armor-plated Packard car with facsimile field guns for fender lamps, a toothsome white mistress* and their bastard child who has a colonel's rank and colonel's pay. He has been happy but for two annoyances...