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Chrysler, which has lagged behind the style parade, this week showed off a pair of new low-slung experimental models, the Plymouth Belmont and the Dodge Fire-arrow. Though Chrysler sold 1.6% fewer cars (1,224,000) last year than in 1952, it still leads the horsepower race with its 235-h.p. engine. But its conservative styling has not helped sales, and it has already been forced to cut back production of some of its 1954 models. To remedy the situation, Chrysler Corp. expects to incorporate some of the ideas of its racy experimental cars in a complete model change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Answer from the Hustlers | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

...overstaying his leave in a brunette's apartment) before he was 19. Two years later he was famous as the leader of the Gelignite Gang, which specialized in blowing safes. "Eddie gets nervous at the thought of anything locked up," said friends proudly. He drove a low-slung car, had a West End flat stocked with a succession of girls, and was well known in Soho's nightclubs. Caught on a routine job one night in Edinburgh, Eddie was released on bail, promptly went to London and scooped up enough cash to bail out his two friends. With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Portrait of a Hero | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

Symbol of new Brown unity, the low slung "Refectory" serves 3000 meals to faculty and students at lunch and dinner. The reverse of Harvard, where freshman life in the yard, Brown relegates the newcomers to scattered dormitories 100 years old. From there, they all trudge daily to the "Refree." While once the fraternity boys isolated themselves in their own "off-campus" dining room, today they rub elbows with the commuter and independent--if just at meals. Living in houses distinguished only by the greek-lettering over the doorways, the chapter man's one concession from the university is the questionable...

Author: By John J. Iselin and Steven C. Swett, S | Title: Brown: Poor Relation of the Ivy League | 11/14/1953 | See Source »

...have walked off with the honors and most of the sales. Last week at the 38th International Motor Show in London's cavernous Earls Court, British automen put in their biggest bid for the booming '"baby" market. On display, along with such sporty models as the low-slung Singer SMX, went the new Standard Eight ($956) and a larger, more powerful version of the Ford Anglia ($1,008). Feature of the show: the two cheapest production cars in the world. One was the Austin A30, a two-door, four-cylinder, 30-h.p, model costing $938. The other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Babies for Britain | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

STUDEBAKER, which pioneered the U.S. market with a mass-produced sports car, will change its design little, but will add a low-slung station wagon to its line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The 1954 Cars | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

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