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...from their first convention in 1905, when howling Wobblies jammed a Loop auditorium, sang Dump the Bosses Off Your Back, retired at intervals for schooners of beer at Hinky Dink Kenna's saloon. Last week there was no singing, no beer, little rejoicing...
Slightly bigger than the Crosley, Standards have a 90-inch wheelbase, a four-cylinder, eight-horsepower engine (U.S. rating: 28 horsepower), will cruise at 50 m.p.h., get 35 to 40 miles on a gallon of gas. The Standards come in three models, "tourer," "saloon" (sedan) and "drophead coupe" (convertible coupe). Another shipment of 8 or 9 cars arrived in the U.S. last week...
...arrangement of "Cowboys" and wooden-looking Indians which Benton had first envisioned through a glass of beer. Said he: "As far back as I can remember, the Anheuser-Busch brewery used a picture of Custer's last stand on their calendars. I've seen it in every saloon and pool hall in the Southwest." Benton decided to paint his own version because he was confident that Cassily Adams' bloody panorama (for which Adolphus Busch Sr. paid $30,000 in 1892) was "not much of a picture." A good many barroom judges will still prefer the original...
...Benton, who does know how to drink-and who once exhibited a $12,000 saloon nude in Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe-set his own ambition: "All you can do is express your own locality, and, if you can do that well, your art will become universal...
After that he joined the Army. He went AWOL, had to be jerked back to the ranks by MPs, was soon discharged. This year he retired from the ring, busied himself in affairs-the saloon and racehorse business. At 3 o'clock one morning last week he was sitting in a Canarsie bar & grill named Dudy's Tavern when four holdup men walked in, yanked out pistols, ordered the bartender to hand over his cash...