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...Perhaps at my age, in any case," wrote Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt, 62, "it is wise to curtail one's activities." What moved her to the reflection: five months after she had dozed her way into a smashup (TIME, Aug. 26), New York State got around to taking away her driver's license...
Eleanor Roosevelt, who had dozed at the wheel of her new Lincoln sedan, came out of a three-way smashup with her appearance changed a bit but her sense of humor intact. Bowling down to Manhattan from Hyde Park she had crossed the white line, smacked one car headon, sideswiped another. Four people besides herself were bunged up. "I myself am quite well," she reported promptly in her column, "though for some time I shall look as though I had been in a football game without having taken any training. My eyes are black and blue. In fact...
...Rear Areas. Apparently the smashup of German communications by Allied airmen, before the push began, had worked a change in the Germans' will and ability to fight in their most competent fashion. There was also a well-grounded suspicion among U.S. officers that Field Marshal Kesselring may have been outwitted to boot...
...years ago, after he had become pretty well, he had a very bad accident. Two years ago, on the seventh of December, he got into a pretty bad smashup -broke his hip, broke his leg in two or three places, broke a wrist and an arm. Some people for a while didn't even think he would live. And then he began to "come to" again. Since then he has been in charge of a partner of the old doctor. Old Dr. New Deal knew a great deal about internal medicine, but nothing about this new kind of trouble...
...owner of the Fun Fair also owns dance halls and nightclubs, manages a mob of burglars and gunmen. He teaches Ernie the fine points of burglary, but the boy, an inept pupil, is arrested after the smashup of a stolen car in which he is riding. The police discover Ernie's mother is a fence (she dies the next day from cancer). Ada decides to marry her gangster boss. The novel ends with Ernie deter mined "to get His own back on the lot of them. ... All He* had to do was sling that jack [into store windows]. Sling...