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...from dashboards to dazzle the Sunday driver with precious information as to how many revolutions per minute his motor is delivering. And where car nomenclature once connoted carriage-trade-victoria, brougham, landau-the new names and models now smack of high compression-Monza, Le Mans, J-TR, Spyder, Grand Prix...
Some Americans who visit Rome lose their wallets. Stephen Greene. 44. lost his style. Already established as a figurative artist, he won a coveted Prix de Rome in 1949. but cut it short after three months and returned to the U.S. shattered and ill. After he recuperated, he painted a stark, disturbing study of a skeleton crucified on an easel...
...nibbling an arm ("The elbow is a very nice place, and from there it is all good"). Backgrounds of the Grande Corniche are getting to be a grand cliché in movies nowadays, and Ball's scenario has more twists and turns than the Grand Prix. But it also has its moments, among them a magnificently foppish performance by erstwhile Television Heavy Telly Savalas. As for Glenn Ford, he is in the driver's seat...
...anxiously over the cars; cartons of fresh-from-the-factory parts were piled against garage walls. Indianapolis 500 Winner A. J. Foyt was driving a Sting Ray. In the Cobras were such aces as Glenn ("Fireball") Roberts, the stock-car champion, and Phil Hill, who won the 1961 Grand Prix title...
When IRS Head Mortimer Caplin announced last December that all expense account expenditures over $25 must be supported by "documentary evidence." restaurateurs responded with a flurry of gimmickry. Some offered Polaroid photos of diners at work, others provided tape recorders to prove people were talking business. Many listed prix fixe meals (with drinks) at $24.95. But today, while the last of the big spenders huddle over their $1.50 martinis among empty tables, the gimmicks have given way to groans...