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...called by its makers the "Nippy Sports" model (see cut p. 33), sells for $745 with a special "super-engine" of 21 h. p., or for $695 with the standard Baby Austin engine which develops 17 h. p. (rated for tax purposes at 7.8 h. p.). In cheapest standard roadster form, the Austin is offered in Manhattan for $495, with 40 mi. per gal. promised. Efforts to manufacture Austins in the U. S. miserably failed (TIME, Sept. 2, 1935), because they obviously cannot be sold to the U. S. masses in competition with U. S. cars of similar price...
...Tanked with rye whiskey and honey, he roared through Washington in his Packard roadster looking for her, zigzagging, climbing sidewalks, bumping fenders...
Short time ago this high-spirited young Congressman bought himself a new Packard roadster, proceeded to make Washington streets unsafe for pedestrians by speeding, roaring past traffic lights, driving on the left. Early one morning last fortnight police spied him whizzing out Connecticut Avenue at 70 m. p. h., gave chase, caught him when he was forced to slow down for a truck. At the police station Representative Zioncheck posted $25 collateral. He later denied to reporters that he had been arrested, next day was "not in" at either home or office. Last week, when he failed to appear...
...autumn on their way to football games at Boston or New Haven. Kay Brannan watches them and sighs. Her family bores her. She yearns for more expensive things. One Saturday evening a handsome Boston socialite, young Dr. Bob Dakin* (Robert Taylor), sweeps up to the curb in his icecream roadster, takes her for a ride, gives her some champagne. Next morning, he emerges from an alcoholic haze to learn that he has married...
...Catherine (Florence Williams) is more painfully enmeshed in a hopeless crush on a scrupulously disinterested portrait painter (Glenn Anders). Callow Martin, one of those slightly ratty British youths with a wild craving for motor cars, just misses a homosexual imbroglio by falling for the girl next door and her roadster. Even Mrs. Hilton (Gladys Cooper), sensible matron that she is, entertains a fleeting fancy for a returned rubber planter. And, most unexpectedly of all, Roger Hilton (Philip Merivale), a financier impeccable of manner and noble of mien, has a weak moment with a flashy actress. By midnight, however, the devil...