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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dizzy D. Jaunty Tommy Murphy, as much as anyone, was a typical man from old Battery D. Tommy, a sergeant in the outfit, was from Kansas City's East Side. As a kid he had gone into the fight game and become king of the amateur lightweights. He was out in Seattle in 1917, when the boys back home wrote him that they were trying to form an all-Catholic battery in the 129th Field Artillery. Tommy hurried home to join. That was the beginning of the wild outfit which earned the early nickname of the "Dizzy...
...there is another side to the opposition. Apart from the question of profit, many people believe that a man who prospered under the Nazis should not be allowed in this country. If Gieseking were a dangerous political character, or if the government had any evidence that he planned to laid "un-American" outfits during his tour, then of course he should have been deported. But the Justice department has presented no such evidence. Unless it does, no one can fairly assume that the pianist was going to do anything but complete his tour and return to Europe...
This combination, Priddy says, works smoothly together and keeps the puck in the attack zone. Lately its weak right side has been worrying...
...third was "El Rancho," a convertible painted "in the singing thunder of a Mexican Dawn" (brown), and soon to be driven by Cadillac Boss John F. Gordon on his Arizona ranch. It has kip-side suede trim, antiqued silver hardware, steer-head escutcheons on the doorsills, and saddle-stitched pistol holsters on the doors. The fourth "sybaritic specimen" was a sedan in "Caribbean Day Break" (green), which would go to some other G.M. executive...
...lowering the roofs, cutting overall width and bumper-to-bumper length. Compared with most postwar cars, body lines were conservative. There were two brand-new models: Plymouth's Suburban, a metal station wagon that sleeps two, and a Dodge roadster with manual top and old-fashioned detachable plastic side curtains. With no frills or extras, it would be the cheapest Dodge. Chrysler had simplified its automatic fluid drive transmission, dubbed it Gyromatic, and made it regular equipment on DeSoto and Chrysler, optional on Dodge...