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...bathroom.) A mile away the world goes by on busy Highway U.S. 71 (Canadian border to Baton Rouge). That mile is a dirt road which spring thaws or rains soften to a greasy gumbo navigable only by Dale Kuester's "mud-whoopee," a 1929 Ford roadster that he has cut down into a pick-up truck...
Then he was off to the American Legion County Fair- his 12th in twelve years. He rode to it on the folded top of a roadster, waving his new hat. At the fair his chair was on a raised platform. He leaned over its railing to grasp hands...
Unexpected Prop. Strengthening Schermerhorn's position and the throne was an unexpected prop, Prince Consort Bernhard. Before the war, when his flashy roadster was constantly streaking from The Hague to the Riviera, most Dutchmen tagged Prince Bernhard as a playboy. Tut during the war he played a big part in fusing the quarreling Dutch Resistance forces into a unified group which did a notable job of preparing the ground ahead of the Canadian liberators. Bernhard himself negotiated with the Germans and had everything practically sewed up, except for actual signatures, when Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery received their surrender...
Five years of exile were all that Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm could stand. After that, he scraped along with the German estates which the Weimar Republic considerately left to him. Berliners got to know him as a fop who drove a racy red roadster to the capital's better hot spots and was unpleasantly wolfish at his own parties. His four sons went various ways : Louis Ferdinand worked for a while in Henry Ford's plant in Detroit, then married a Russian refugee Romanov princess, ended up as a prisoner of the Allies. The eldest son, Wilhelm, lost...
When Pietro Badoglio, Italian royalty's strongest supporter, came down the grand staircase and walked out of the hotel, crowds cheered him. The marshal entered his long, blue roadster, waved a hand at his admirers. Then he was driven away...