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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the subject of made-to-order auto bodies belongs to the esoteric, I am horrified at the appellation and price [$30,000] of the "sybaritic specimens." A "Coup de Ville" is improper French for the wrong type of carrosserie. A Coupée de Ville is a body with an open-type front as the Coach-craft Coupé de Ville I designed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 14, 1949 | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Even a change from their standby topic, federal aid to education, hasn't improved the skidding fortunes of the Debate Council. It lost its third debate in two days last night when it met with Boston College in Kirkland House to discuss the subject: "A Comprehensive Civil Rights Program Should Be Enacted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debating Council Fails BC Test on Civil Rights Issue | 2/12/1949 | See Source »

Second, the Council might well set up a Steering Committee to trim and space out some of the less important schemes which bog down Council agenda. The surgery performed by such a committee could be subject to Council review...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Out of the Slump | 2/12/1949 | See Source »

Debate Council speakers Frank Boas '51 and Peter Clayton '50 defeated a pair of Drew University debaters on the subject "Equalization of Education Opportunity in the states through federal grants" in the Lowell House Senior Common Room last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debaters Renew Competition with Defeat of Drew | 2/10/1949 | See Source »

...ease of the last Nazi was criminal (the one who got away) and how Army intelligence tracked him down is the subject of dick Powell's latest wharf-brawl. As usual, dapper Dick has little or nothing to work with, in this case just his native intelligence and a picture of the culprit facing the other way. For an hilarious moment, the patrons have visions of Powell prowling the globe in search of a man whose pate is familiar, when a clue turns up which sends him scurrying off to Indo-china...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Rogues' Regiment | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

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