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...Chicago voted with remarkably little violence. Forty detective squads cruised the town. Late in election evening, a youth with an aged roadster parked in front of the University Club and made his muffler backfire with murderous reports. Police strolled toward the sound. The youth & friends drove away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Politicules | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...magazine covers, and snapped one day on the beach by a newsreel photographer. Louis J. Selznick, then Napoleon of producers, starred her; later she met William Randolph Hearst and joined his company, the Cosmopolitan. Now with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, she plays golf, stutters when excited, drives a Packard roadster, has a bulldog named inevitably, Buddy. On the lot a butler and cook give her lunch in a $35,000 stucco bungalow; she gets dressed in a room on wheels. She is not married but plots to get other people married. When Lindbergh visited Los Angeles, she was the only cinema...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 19, 1928 | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

Whizz! Half a dozen French bicycle police scooted up, with mustaches bristling, and surrounded a small, inoffensive U. S. roadster. With screeching breaks a large limousine drew up also, and out hopped several excited agents of the Surete General (Secret Service). Cried a Surete plain clothes man to the occupant of the roadster: "Are you M. Harold Horan, representative of M. Guillaume Randolph Hearst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Whizz--the Police! | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

Said the man in the roadster, "Old, je suis Horan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Whizz--the Police! | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

Chrysler Corp. has gone into the low-priced field with the throttle wide open. Item A: the new Plymouth, a four-cylinder car, with Silver-Dome high-compression engine which uses any gasoline, capable of a speed of more than 60 miles per hour, selling for $670 (roadster, coupe) up to $725 (four-door sedan). Item B: the new De Soto, a six-cylinder car selling for less than $1,000. In performance and appearance, it is similar to the new Chrysler 65, a slightly more expensive car. "Much for little" is the idea behind the De Soto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Motors, Models | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

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