Word: runabouts
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Easing in to the dock at Yorktown, Va., Harry Truman had one small reminder of the political storms to come. The Williamsburg was overtaken by a small runabout carrying a dozen teen-age boys and girls alternately shouting "Hurrah for Thurmond!" and singing Dixie...
Over the Downs. With the dew still wet on the grass. Richards rolled through the English countryside last week in his little Morris runabout (he left his Rolls Royce and his chauffeur at home). Usually, with his 112-lb. body wrapped in Bond Street tweeds, wealthy Jockey Richards looks like a well-dressed ex-fullback, seen through the wrong end of a telescope. Last week he went out in flannel shirt and whipcord breeches. The runabout pulled up before a rambling old brick stable. There Richards mounted a delicately built, undersized brown colt named Tudor Minstrel...
...price level, suddenly began to find objections. Said Iowa Farmer A. J. Loveland: "Personally, I think it's too high. After the war you might buy a tractor and a car for $1,090." Said Iowa State Agriculture Secretary Harry D. Linn: "Jeeps will fit in well for runabout errands. But I can't see how the practical farmer is going to go crazy over it. They shake your teeth...
...Chicago's Boat Mart, a slick runabout changed hands for $1,500 last week. The seller: an auto-parts manufacturer, his business shot by priorities, his savings shot by income taxes, his nerves shot by the war. The buyer: a steelworker with plenty of overtime in his pay envelope and a thriving bank account...
...Simmons' My Sin, winner last year with an average speed of 66 m.p.h., and Herbert Mendelson's brand-new Notre Dame, successor to the original Notre Dame that won the 1937 race. Sentimentalists hoped that Gar Wood Jr., driving his little Tinker Toy (a converted 18-ft. runabout with which he was making his debut in big-time inboard racing), might follow in the wake of his famed father, four-time Gold Cup winner...