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...habit of adding strips of chrome and other gadgets to models ready for production. Even though his production got as high as 107,000 units per year, between 1949 and 1961 Borgward put out 17 completely different models in some 60 styles. Said one of his aides in rueful amazement: "Give him a piece of clay and before you know it Carl has another model." He often tailored his cars to his own measurements, and since he was only 5 ft. 4 in., tall men were often uncomfortable in his cars. On one car, buyers complained of an odd right...
...coeds dutifully obeyed an 8:30 curfew. "Quiet as a good country churchyard at midnight," said Dean of Men William Tate, who had battled the mob alone. Surveying husky Hamilton Holmes, one football-happy alumnus mused: "The more I look at that boy, the whiter he gets." With a rueful smile, one white girl summed up: "Some of us have grown up a lot in the last ten days-and so have some adults...
...entire appliance industry is in the midst of an ambitious program to improve quality. "I'm not saying the whole thing is lousy," explains one Norge executive, "but the automatic washer is probably more susceptible to service than any other appliance in the home." He speaks from rueful personal experience. For years there was no formal exchange between Norge's service department and its engineers, and chronic complaints never filtered back to the machine designers-a gap since remedied. Maytag decided to drop annual model changes, use the savings for better quality control, and sales soared To test...
Unfortunately, this gives Wink time for some rueful reflections. After all, he remembers the New England hurricane of 1938, before Gin was two. He remembers Benny Goodman, and he cannot forget Freud and girls who marry father surrogates. Then there is Gin's mother. As a penthouse-mistress of the theater and TV set with a not-so-secret yen for Wink, she resents a marriage that will blight the promise of adultery. What with mother and some complicated skulduggery back at the NBS network, it sometimes seems that the rice will never fly, but it does...
...known as a platinum-haired prowline, demonstrates surprisingly that she is also a singer. Equipped with a clear, flexible voice and a natural knack for phrasing, she works her way with equal ease through ballads (Imagination) and rhythm songs (Come By Sunday), giving all of them a raffish and rueful charm...