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...recall other circumstances of his relationship with Crosley; that he had taken Crosley, his wife and baby into the Hisses' house for a few days; that he sublet his apartment to Crosley but never received any rent from him; that he had let him use his old Ford roadster "with a sassy little trunk on the back"; that he had probably taken Crosley along on one of his trips to New York. They asked Hiss about his hobbies. Ornithology was one, Hiss said. He remembered how once he had seen a prothonotary warbler-on the banks of the Potomac...
Italian Communists sent a 5,000,000-lire Alfa Romeo sports roadster, the kind that Prince Aly Khan gave to Rita Hayworth. The French Reds sent a chromium-plated racing bicycle. From the Communist Party in Hungary came a red plastic telephone which, instead of sounding a bell, plays the Internationale. And from a well-wisher in North America (Moscow did not name him) came the headdress of an Indian chief, with a salutation hailing Stalin as "the greatest of warriors, honorary chief of all Indian tribes...
...piece of testimony, produced at a congressional hearing but barred from the first trial by Judge Samuel Kaufman, was admitted to the second trial by Judge Henry Goddard. Hiss, who had a Ford roadster, had bought a new Plymouth. Said Chambers: "He wanted to get rid of the Ford. He proposed to turn it over to the Communist Party for the use of some poor organizer . . . Later Mr. Hiss told me that he had turned the car over according to an arrangement made between him and J. Peters." If the Government could prove that such a transfer had actually taken...
...Duke of President Edens had much to boast of besides its millions. In the past decade, it had doubled in size (to 5,211 students), and as enrollments swelled, standards had been raised to keep out all but top-ranking applicants. World War II finally eliminated the flashy roadster; the veteran drove out the playboy...
Factory-priced at $849, the Crosley roadster will deliver anywhere in the U.S. for less than...