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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Charles Partlow ("Chic") Sale, 51, rube vaudevillian and author (The Specialist); of lobar pneumonia; in Hollywood. Originally a bewhiskered mimic of old hicks, he was famed for his earthy, hayseed wit, his tearful portrayal of a G.A.R. veteran scuffling down the road to the poorhouse. Proud of his resemblance to Abraham Lincoln, he made the privy theatrically acceptable...
Furniture, rugs and art of Mrs. Samuel Insull and the late Mrs. Samuel Insull Jr., wife and daughter-in-law of Chicago's onetime utility pope, were auctioned in a four-day sale in Manhattan...
...sold by them. Under the terms of this guarantee not only is any defective part replaced, but it is also fitted to the chassis free of charge." There is also something about the little British roadbug at the humorous other extreme from Rolls-Royce, the Baby Austin. And on sale in Manhattan last week, after five years of successful manufacture by the German firm of Mercédès-Benz, was a medium-sized car in which the most advanced European features of construction have been merged: tube frame, engine at the rear, independent springing of all four wheels...
...Mercédès-Benz rear-engine car (see cut p. 33) is delivered in Manhattan for $2,175. Also on sale last week was the large Mercédès with supercharger and promised speed of 110 m.p.h., at $14,000. No French, Italian, Czechoslovak or Japanese car was offered last week, though European Motors Inc. specializes in importing on order and servicing anything, however exotic.* A new firm of interest to swanksters was J. S. Inskip, Inc., successors to defunct Rolls-Royce of America Inc. in importing the English article. On their floor...
Other foreign cars on sale in Manhattan last week were British...