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Like many another middle-class British family back in the '30s, Mr. & Mrs. Clement Attlee liked to spend their weekends getting away from it all in the family car. When Clem's duties permitted, a trim 1936 Hillman sedan whisked them away from the cares of Parliament and the chores of suburban housekeeping, with comely, curly-haired Violet Attlee at the wheel, her husband tucked in beside her in the front seat and the back well-stocked with picnic fare...
...Doing It Myself." What Booth has got includes four tractors, a corn chopper, a self-propelled combine, plenty of discs, plows, wheat drills, and cultivators, a 1946 Chevrolet and-his pride & joy-a 1948 Cadillac. Said Mrs. Booth: "It's a four-door sedan with white sidewall tires. I wanted the Fleetwood, but it wouldn't go in the garage." Booth apologized for the farm buildings: "Need painting. Haven't been able to buy the quality of paint we wanted. But I'll paint this summer. I'll save 50% doing it myself...
...tired and blue around the gills when he came ashore at Colombo, Ceylon to attend the Commonwealth Foreign Ministers Conference. "I can't stand this climate," said Bevin. "It's like August bank holiday on Hampstead Heath." His hosts arranged to have him carried in a sedan chair with four strong bearers. Said a friend to Bevin: "You are using a means of transportation which your old union* would not approve...
...black Buick sedan drew up before Britain's Foreign Office in Whitehall. Out stepped Dr. Cheng Tien-hsi, Nationalist China's urbane and scholarly ambassador, summoned to hear a judgment from His Britannic Majesty's Government...
Follow Through. In Oklahoma City, 18-year-old Private Archie L. Labeau admitted stealing a 1948 wrecker from a garage in order to retrieve a 1936 Ford sedan which he had already stolen and stalled in a ditch...