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...descended ten floors to his spanking new 1950 Studebaker convertible waiting at the curb. That he had designed too-along with all the Studebakers since the war-and thereby helped set a new fashion in automobiles. Loewy's own car had a few special flamboyant frills: a plastic tailfin, a tiny gold grilled air scoop above the emblem on the hood, recessed door handles, porthole windows and other eyecatchers to start pedestrians' tongues awagging with-the name of Studebaker− and Showman Loewy...
Casual & Informal. By 7.30 a.m. Wednesday, the huge, four-motored transport 49149, with five stars on its tailfin, was warmed up and waiting at Nanking Military Airport. It was the same plane which had brought Marshall to China more than a year...