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...showed its new models at Chicago's Auto Show, the public got its first chance to see the low-priced car. Its 100-in. wheelbase is more than a foot shorter than a Ford is, and its design combines something of Ford and Studebaker, and the upswept rear fenders of Cadillac. Inside, it is stripped of everything but essentials (no radio, clock or chromium trim). For additional economy, the body's top and rear are stamped all in one piece, with no rear trunk. Instead, the luggage space is behind the rear seat, which can also be pulled...
With his last defense broken through, the old reliable was sent to the rear. But once the patient was out of combat, Army psychiatrists found that the old sergeant syndrome was easy to treat. By giving him a job out of shellfire range but close to the front, the Army found it could cure him and still get a lot of good service out of a rusty iron...
...ranks of World War II's foot soldiers, there were always the iron men -tough noncoms who stood out as the most efficient, best disciplined men in their outfits. But sometimes even the iron men cracked up and had to be carted to the rear muttering the confused soliloquies of soldiers suddenly smitten with combat fatigue...
Some of these inside bad waited more than an hour to make sure of getting a seat; first outside in the cold, then patiently in the straight backed pews of the theatre. As Mrs. Roosevelt came onto the stage from the left rear door the people arose, clapping spontancously. Outside many of the hundreds who had come only a half-hour or less before the scheduled hour drifted away...
Provost Buck was introduced, and in turn introduced Mrs. Roosevelt. As the began to speak the audience grew silent. Those in the rear leaned forward to hear every world. All was quiet except for the gentle rising and falling of her voice. Then came a tapping. It repeated. And another tapping. Everyone must have been conscious of it. A few shifted in their seats and looked around. But it took a moment for the realization to spread that the tappings were coming from those left outside, knocking hopefully on one of the exit-doors at the rear of the balcony...