Word: seated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Driver's Seat. Yearly sales of Loewy-designed products now exceed $1 billion. Loewy's own gross runs between $2,500,000 and $3,000,000. His net, which he shares with five partners, including his good friend and ex-wife Virginia Thomson Loewy, is a secret, but Loewy manages to keep up two French chateaux, a Park Avenue apartment, a Long Island estate and a California desert hideaway. He likes to buy new limousines and restyle them to his own exacting taste...
...rounded up about a dozen dramatics students to act out the accident, and he had taken motion pictures of it from four different angles. For one sequence, the camera was behind the driver's seat, as the car moved down Ann Arbor's Monroe Street, sideswiping a pedestrian who stepped out from behind a parked car. The other shots showed what witnesses would have seen from the sidewalks. For the trial, the driver and witnesses saw only the sequences that applied to them. The student lawyers had to prepare their briefs without seeing the movies...
...Kansas, where victory in the Republican primary is about equal to election, popular ex-Governor Andrew Schoeppel, 53, easily won nomination to the Senate seat being vacated by ancient (83) Arthur Capper. Governor Frank Carlson, 55, was renominated in a walk...
...Democratic courthouse cronies, put up no candidates for local offices. Winner of their nomination for Congress: Tyrrell Krum, 48, conductor of a column on veterans' affairs for the Washington Times-Herald, who will try to pry labor-baiting, reactionary Howard Smith from his well-entrenched (18 years) congressional seat...
...sign of buyer resistance was cited last week by Charles D. Henderson, executive vice president of New York State Automobile Dealers. The dealers, he said, were squirming under a deluge of vituperation from customers forced to buy unwanted "extras." The extras include fog lights, seat covers, lap robes, special steering wheels, powder-puff holders, radios with rear-seat speakers and up to $350 worth of luggage to match the baggage compartment. General Motors and Ford promptly denied that they were adding unordered extras, passed the blame back to the dealers...