Word: parkers
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...join the Marines as a private at 18, saw a lot of China before mustering out as a first lieutenant in 1946 and used to relax by racing sports cars. Is that the profile of a chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers? Well, in the case of Daniel Parker, grandson of Parker Pen Co.'s founder, there were lots of other credentials-like a Harvard Business School diploma ('49), directorships of four companies, and 17 years spent working at Parker, the last seven as chairman, during which time sales increased 33%. So when the N.A.M. needed...
Ghoulish Curio. The story has its basis in fact. Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were two veal-faced wrongos who rode out of Texas during the Depression, killing and plundering for fun and profit. The constabulary bushwacked them in May 1934 near Arcadia, La., firing a thousand rounds into the fugitives and their 1934 Ford De Luxe, which 18 years later was still touring auto showrooms as a ghoulish curio. On their own turf, Bonnie and Clyde passed from the front page into folklore; elsewhere, they were relegated to Sunday-supplement features, colorful figures of the gangland...
...time they are cheered on by starving drifters who vicariously enjoy the cocky resume: "I'm Clyde Barrow, and this is Miss Bonnie Parker. We rob banks." In an episode at once poignant and wonderfully funny, Clyde lends his .45 to a Texas-gothic farmer, who shoots his deserted farmhouse, repossessed by the bank. They speed away from their jobs in a succession of stolen cars-their Ford coupes, Essex tourer and Marmon Saloon are virtually living members of the cast. The sound track adds a further fillip to the humor; the exuberant banjo picking of Earl Scruggs playing...
...first to see the cinematic potential of Bonnie and Clyde. Back in 1937 the gangster couple inspired Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once, a fictionalized treatment of a man ruined by a prison sentence, starring Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sydney. As recently as 1958, The Bonnie Parker Story starred Dorothy Provine, a veteran of TV's Roaring Twenties turned into a Yelling Thirties girl...
Because the paper had devised a system to avoid such errors, Lord Chief Justice Parker did not jail Evans but fined the Times $12,000 and court costs last week. Making the best of it, the daily Times congratulated the judge for at least distinguishing between responsibility and culpability...