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...betting more heavily on snatching a part of the high-priced neo-sports market away from the Thunderbird than Studebaker President Sherwood Harry Egbert. If his speedy new Avanti (TIME, April 13) sells well, he intends to transfer some of its sleek Italianate lines to other Studebaker models next year...
After nine knock-around years of marriage, Auto Heir Horace E. Dodge Jr. (age, 62; weight, 180) filed suit for divorce from Gregg Sherwood Dodge (age. 38; weight. 130), charging that she kicked and slapped him to the point that he feared "for his safety and existence." Her answer was a double-taker: "He's afraid of me physically? I can hardly lift him off the floor...
...running whisky in New Orleans back in Prohibition days, and I met Sherwood Anderson," Faulkner used to explain when someone asked how he started to write. His first novel, Soldier's Pay, was published in 1926, but Faulkner had to make his living by odd jobs (including an epic failure as postmaster at Ole Miss) until Sanctuary, his seventh book, came out five years later. For almost the only time in his life he showed bitterness in public, boasting in a preface that the book was a "cheap idea" written only for money. But the money came, and when...
...first Pulitzer, with The Old Man and the Sea, having previously missed with two American classics (The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms). Some of the Pulitzer drama prizes so enraged Broadway critics, e.g., in 1935 Zoe Akins' The Old Maid beat out Robert Sherwood's The Petrified Forest, that New York drama critics set up an award of their own, and the whole thing became a joke...
...Avanti is harddriving, flamboyant Sherwood Egbert's own brainchild. Ever since he took over faltering Studebaker-Packard in February 1961, Egbert has been painfully aware that the company badly needs some avanti pointing. Stuck with his predecessors' designs, Egbert saw Studebaker sell only a paltry 72,155 cars last year, managed to turn a $3.1 million loss into a $2.5 million profit only by selling off the company's plastics division to Monsanto...