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...newcomers were Packard, Plymouth, Studebaker. All showed the same trend: longer, lower bodies, further streamlining, an impression of massiveness attained by redesigned front ends, cartwheel-sized hubcaps, heavy grilles, thigh-thick bumpers. Amazing was their glitter. The touted shortage of chrome, nickel, other bright metals was not in evidence on the surface. The use of plastics was up, but not much more than in recent years. Some details...
Douglas Bader cracked up bringing an R.A.F. plane out of a slow roll in 1931, woke up with both legs amputated, one at the thigh, one at the knee. He fitted himself with a pair of four-pound, duralumin, flexible-jointed legs designed by the brothers Desoutter, one of whom also lost a limb in an air crash. Douglas Bader learned to fox trot, play cricket, turn a backward somersault, finally had one leg shortened for further agility...
...only twelve months (Ohio's Harold Burton), had finally agreed on 18 months and a limited declaration of "national peril." House leaders privately feared that the best they could hope for was a six-months' extension. The Isolationists, supposedly on the defensive, were smiting their opponents hip & thigh...
...Halpert called her exhibition What Is Wrong With This Picture?, invited gallery-goers to fill out a questionnaire telling what they thought was wrong with each one. No two gallery-goers agreed. Of the Kuniyoshi one amateur critic wrote: "Feeling of left thigh seems vulgar"; another: "I do not like the position of the figure, nor the color of the flesh...
...John the Revelator, has regularly evoked pin-drop silence in both downtown and uptown branches of Barney Josephson's Café Society. John the Revelator is one of the hit songs of a Negro group named the Golden Gate Quartet, whose hushed voices, to the rhythm of reverential thigh-slaps and foot-taps, make spirituals sound-in the jazzmen's phrase-out of this world. Recently a Café Societarian, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., took his mother to hear the Golden Gate boys...