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...display this week went Plymouth's 1953 models-all new, including most price tags. Of the nine body styles, ranging from $1,535 to $2,120, four had price cuts ranging from $38 to $78; the rest were virtually unchanged. And every model in Plymouth's sleeker, lower line had marked improvements over...
Venus Observed. No one could survive two Hollywood marriages unchanged. When she married Rooney, Ava was still a slightly chunky, giggling kid who would playfully scuffle with Mickey on the living-room floor; by the time of her divorce from Shaw, she had grown sleeker, more self-possessed. She had also become tougher, more aggressive. She began to get better parts (The Killers, The Hucksters'). To go out with Ava began to be considered a distinction. She began figuring as the heroine of many a Hollywood anecdote...
Boston's action shines forth as an encouraging example of what can be done in an age when automobiles are getting sleeker, and parking space prospects bleaker. In New York, car lots have arisen on steel legs toward the heavens. Boston, not to be outdone, is going in the opposite direction. Yet Cambridge--and particularly the College--seems to be caught in the middle, getting nowhere, and in its own good time...
Smoother and sleeker than its prototype, the new Corsair is made distinctive by its inverted gull wing, which makes possible a short, light, retractable landing gear and still leaves room for the big three-bladed propeller to clear the ground on take-off runs...
When the men of radio, 1,100 strong (and younger and sleeker than most conventioneers), met last week in St. Louis for the annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters, the world of radio was in process of disintegration. Not only did the industry split in the midst of its war with ASCAP (see p. 77), but it plunged into a new and greater war with the New Deal...