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...Smashup, by Theodore Pratt (Gold Medal; paperbound. 25?). is a graphic reminder to drive carefully even when the life you save may not be your own. On the highways of a town called Center City, one car plows into another at 50 miles an hour. Score: one dead, one severely injured. The guilty party, a 200-lb., iron-willed matron, promptly sues the other driver (a young millionaire) for $300,000 on grounds that disfiguring injuries have ruined her daughter's budding career as a beauty queen and TV star. But two unexpected witnesses make depositions to set things...
...damage suit filed against him by three people who were injured last month in a dawn collision with Bing's $12,250 Mercedes-Benz. Scoffing at a claim that he was drunk, Bing ticked off his liquor intake at a party he attended before the smashup: "Two Scotch and water drinks before dinner, champagne during dinner, two Scotches and water after dinner...
Though he eats her cooking daily, Herbert is convinced that his wife has been dead for 17 years, and pays her no notice except for her weekly resurrection at séances. His mousy womenfolk humor him and blame it all on a lorry smashup. The drone of an airplane sends him into whimpering hysterics. Even more trying to plain-as-rain Grace is her loony father's mirking assumption that mild Mr. Holme, the staid widower and pensioned policeman who lives down the street, is an "old bull" bent on seducing...
...weeks ago 79-year-old Speaker Edouard Herriot heaved himself up from his chair overlooking France's Assembly to announce that one of its members, Jacques Ducreux, 41, had been killed in an auto smashup. At once the other deputies stood up, according to custom, to wait for the expected eulogy. They knew this one would probably take time: after all, Monsieur Ducreux was a member of the executive committee of Herriot's own Radical Socialist Party. Herriot started off in style: he limned the pastoral beauties of the Vosges countryside where Ducreux came from, and recalled...
...Prince Oscar Carl Wilhelm of Sweden, 90, head of the Swedish Red Cross (1903-45), brother of Sweden's late King Gustaf V, uncle of King Gustaf VI, father of Norway's Princess Martha and of Belgium's late Queen Astrid (who died in an automobile smashup in 1935), grandfather of Belgium's King Baudouin; of a heart attack; in Stockholm...