Word: riley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Exurbanite Osborn (TIME, April 6, 1953), who personally drives a four-passenger 1951 British-made Riley ("It's the most marvelous green color and the wheels aren't square"), thinks the 1957 cars are "ludicrous" ("Why, you can't even get into the things"). His idea of what a car should be: a cross between a French Bugatti and the 1914 Packard he grew up in. One is beautifully disciplined; the other, "once you "got in you could walk around in it." Asks Osborn: "Why is it, when Detroit can produce an engine as fine as they...
...Dedham first line of Bill and Joe Riley and Bruce Mather accounted for seven goals; freshman coach Nat Harris scored twice; former Yardling Miles Huntington and 1954 Crimson captain Norm Wood each tallied once, and Bill Bliss scored twice...
...Dedham lineup will be Norm Wood, who captained the 1954 Crimson team; John White, freshman coach for the past three years; Nat Harris, the present freshman coach; two members of the 1948 American Olympic team, Bruce Mather and Stan Priddy; and former Dartmouth stars Bill and Joe Riley...
Animated Decoy. A battery-powered plastic duck that simulates feeding movements of a mallard is being marketed by Riley Decoy Corp., Eugene, Ore. Later this year the firm will also offer hunters an animated mallard hen. Price: $17.95, with battery...
Bell Boy. In Stubbs Bay, Minn., when exasperated residents demanded to know why he drove through the town in an ancient hearse and clanged a locomotive bell each day at 6 a.m., noon, 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., Farm Caretaker Tom Riley, 73, explained: "A fellow ought to have some fun before he dies...