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Groucho Marx let a "beautiful young lady" out of his sedan in Los Angeles and drove into a telephone pole. Treated at a hospital for bruises and a possible rib fracture, he explained: "I was looking at her in the rearview mirror, or rolling up the windows, or something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 27, 1943 | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

Charlie Wilson was transferred to Bridgeport. He rode into Bridgeport in 1923 in a green Standard sedan. He rode out, 14 years later, in a sleek 8-cylinder Cadillac. Between those two rides he made his reputation as a production man. When he arrived, a certain cable-wrapping operation took 24 hours. After he had tinkered with the process, it took exactly 58 seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One War Won | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

Beauty's Slaves. In Kansas City, four boys were charged with stealing auto accessories: police found them in a sedan equipped with seven tail lights, four spot lights, two radiator lights, a red light in a radiator cap, two flags, three coon tails, a silver ball, two crosses, two regular horns, eleven musical horns and a doorbell with cathedral chimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 6, 1943 | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...rained that afternoon, so they left it parked on Michigan Avenue and bought a $5000, 7-passenger Packard sedan...

Author: By S/sgt GEORGE Avakian, | Title: JAZZ, ETC. | 11/12/1943 | See Source »

...Jacobson and Frank Billings bought a $500 7-passenger Packard sedan with 16 cylinders one day and decided next morning that they should have gotten a convertible instead. So they sawed...

Author: By S/sgt GEORGE Avakian, | Title: JAZZ, ETC. | 11/12/1943 | See Source »

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