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People outside the office saw little of him. Every morning, a bespectacled chauffeur-bodyguard knocked on the sixth-floor door of his apartment at 420 West 119th Street (near Columbia University), escorted him down to a Chrysler sedan and drove him to the office. In the evening the chauffeur took him home again in the same solicitous fashion...
...Sedan. As the manhunt shifted to the south, the cops got another clue -their quarry had walked calmly into a Jacksonville automobile agency, bought a new Pontiac sedan, registered it under the name of Robert Franklin, and vanished again...
Over the boss's objections, the C.I.O. United Auto Workers bought an $11,600 armored Packard sedan for Walter Reuther, who still wears a sling around his right arm, shattered by a shotgun blast a year...
...also brought out a new model, the Traveler, a combination sedan and station wagon with a list price of $2,088. The rear of the Traveler opens up (see cut) and the back seat folds down on the floor, making a lugeage compartment almost as large as a station wagon's. K-F figured the car would be fine for small businessmen and farmers, who could use it as a truck by day, a family car by night...
...times, decorated 16 times); of intestinal cancer and pernicious anemia; in Dijon, France. Lean, towering (6 ft. 4 in.) Soldier Giraud, who escaped from the Germans in World War I with the help of Nurse Edith Cavell, was captured again by the Germans in World War II, during the Sedan breakthrough. He escaped again, made his way with Allied help to Gibraltar - and frustration. He had been picked by the Allies to command French forces in Africa after the invasion in 1942, but sly Admiral Darlan, who had to be bullied and wheedled into going over from Vichy...