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...Datsun advertisements the happy passengers are whites, even when the entire text is in Japanese. Prices f.o.b. Yokohama: Roadster, Yen 1,775 ($514.75); Phaeton, Yen 1,850 ($536.50) ; Sedan, Yen 1,975 ($572.75).* Advertised mileage: 50 per gallon. Speed: 45 m.p.h. Rueful Manhattan executives of Mitsubishi admit that there is not a single Datsun in North America (Chile has many), offer eagerly to supply a sedan (considered their swankiest model) for $660 at Mitsubishi Co. Ltd., No. 120 Broadway...
...President Lowell goes about filling his summer "vacation is a phenomenon of the first order. Sport and business mix in equal proportion" is a phenomenon of the first order, sunny hours back-diving from his raft in Cotuit, and speeding ahead of motorcycle cops in his snappy green Buick phaeton (Lowell at the wheel of course). But this summer there was much hot labor moving out of The President's House. For days on end the founder of the Harvard House Plan could be seen carrying bridge-lamps, books, Old Masters, pots and pans out of the Yard like...
...weather the thoughts of the average run of young men turn in the general direction of the tender passion and its inevitable concomitants. Already an acute observer may see an occasional lady leaning over her casement in the hope that a modern knight will pass by in a suave phaeton gayly tirra-lirraing. Whereas the Vagabond does not profess to be more than slightly conversant with such cardiac matters he has heard from vehement, if not avowedly authentic sources that a knowledge of poetry is rarely a hindrance and often a help...
...Asia. Economic systems faltered. Workmen abandoned their labors. Women became untamed sexual aggressors. Problems that would occupy 20 volumes are dismissed in sentences. Nations perish in a paragraph, continents in a chapter. Each phase of the debacle is outlined with unflagging vigor and a wild flow of words. Finally Phaeton Andrews, last man to survive, after a voyage from rotting New York to savage England, ages slowly to his death in 2027, his mind a strange confusion of scraps of philosophy, politics, sociology, psychology, erotica, all the arts and sciences, in consonance with the 34 chapters which precede...
Within the show price became of little import. The beauty of car bodies drew attention, the mechanics of motors drew questions. Body colors were brilliant on almost every car. Effective was the Reo Flying Cloud phaeton, grey with red line striping and with red leather upholstery. Effective too was the Cadillac touring car finished in cream & gold and with pigskin upholstery...