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...parade, Buick tricked up is convertible with a new body, the Skylark; Cadillac brought out its El Dorado, Packard its Caribbean, and Oldsmobile its Fiesta. Kaiser-Frazer plans to bring out a fiber-glass plastic roadster this spring. Sports-car fanatics regard these cars as still too big. But even the fanatics were impressed when Chevrolet showed off its new fiber-glass plastic Corvette a fortnight ago. The Corvette, still to be put into production, seemed to have everything the best European sports cars have -except the ultra-high price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Low-Slung Beauty | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...Light, and Noel Coward wired her: "Legitimate at last, darling. Won't mother be pleased?" Coward wrote Private Lives especially for her, and as Amanda, whose heart "was jagged with sophistication," she profoundly affected a generation of theatergoing young women. In Tonight at 8:30, Susan and God, Skylark and Lady in the Dark, Gertrude made as much as $5,000 a week. All the money ran through her fingers as fast as it poured in. She was declared bankrupt in England and hounded by creditors in the U.S. Somehow, she paid off everyone while managing to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Last Dance | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...popularity of sport cars in the U.S.-especially those imported from Europe-Buick last week showed off one of its own-the Skylark. Standing only 43.6 in. high with its top down, the Skylark is built on a Buick Roadmaster chassis, has a 170 h.p. engine, a top speed of 100 m.p.h., Italian-made wire wheels and red cowhide upholstery. General Motors will put the car into production as soon as it gets orders for 1,000. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Sport Entry | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

Tapeworms bask in their intestines; protozoans, flukes and nematodes float around in their fluids. To Rothschild and Clay, a skylark is more than a blithe spirit: it is a flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Flying Zoos | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

...south shore near Buzzard's Bay also has a noteworthy program. Jackie Cooper plays through the weekend in the 1947 comedy hit, "John Loves Mary." Beginning July 16th Veronica Lake stars in John van Druten's "Voice of the Turtle"; on July 30th Constance Bennett begins in "The Skylark"; on August 6th Arthur Teacher appears in "Clutterbuck"; and if you're thinking of a week on the Cape after summer school is over, you can see Carol Bruce in Rodgers and Hart's "Pal Joey" which begins on August 27th...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cape Summer Theatricals Offer Wide Assortment of Playgoing | 7/12/1951 | See Source »

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