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...basis of gasoline mileage alone, the Studebaker Champion placed first with 26.551 miles to the gallon, the sweepstakes-winning Mercury second with 26.524 mi., and a Nash Ambassador third with 26.424 mi. Next, in order of ranking: Nash Statesman, 25.522 m.p.g.; Studebaker Land Cruiser, 24.887; Kaiser Special, 23.946; Frazer Manhattan, 23.907; Studebaker Commander, 23-794; Ford 6, 23.326; Cadillac 61, 22.972; Cadillac 62, 22.525; Cadillac 60, 22.080; Hudson Commodore, 21.386; Plymouth, 21.254; Chevrolet...
...must know your great statesman Wang An-shih...
Others joined in, urging the building of the H-bomb: Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, Republican Senator John Bricker, Eleanor Roosevelt, Senator Tom Connally...
...same name die each year. We never identified him." He gazed at the general, but the general offered no clue. Nearby a mustachioed captain of colonial infantry, stern devotion to duty written all over his young face, looked up at an overweight nude (see cut). As a statesman turned his frock-coated back, a nameless admiral, whose neck, broken in transit, gave him more the look of a fey midshipman, cast a come-hither glance at a Grecian faun...
Boom, Pause, Boom. It was hard for Columbia to believe. In 50 years Carlton Hayes had become an almost legendary figure on Morningside Heights. He was the elder statesman with the courtly manners who could call a greying colleague "My dear boy . . ." and still make it sound quite proper. He taught history with an actor's skill. Looking majestically out into space, he would boom a few sentences, then pause, then boom out again. Sometimes he would wrap his double-breasted coat close around him as if it were a cloak and seem to become Disraeli, Metternich or Bismarck...