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...strolled off a Lucy set one day last fall and made a phone call nailing down the purchase from General Tire & Rubber Co., RKO's owner since 1955, for a bargain $6,150,000. Desi usually spends ten hours a day at work, chauffeurs himself in his black Thunderbird from the Beverly Hills mansion where he and Lucy live with their two children, Lucie Desirée, 6, and Desi IV, 5, manages three-day golf weekends at another home in Palm Springs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The New Tycoon | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

...Cadillac). Once major mechanical improvements were the exclusive property of more expensive autos, e.g., Oldsmobile's automatic shift; now lower-priced models have all of them. Among the lower-priced cars, it is the highest-priced models that are doing best. Ford sales are down, but its Thunderbird and Fairlane are selling best-to many people who a few years ago would have bought a middle-priced car. Sales of Chevrolet are neck-and-neck with 1957, with the biggest sellers its most expensive models, including the Impala...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTO PRESTIGE: Conspicuous Consumption Is Waning | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

...THUNDERBIRD SOFT TOP that will fold back into trunk like Ford's automatically retractable hardtop, will be put out by Ford this spring. Unlike hardtop convertible, new four-seater Thunderbird wi'l be only semiautomatic, require driver to lower trunk himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Feb. 10, 1958 | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...Francisco's Ken Venturi tucked away the $15,000 Thunderbird Invitational golf tournament in easy fashion at Palm Beach yesterday, shooting his fourth sub-par round and turning back fourth sub-par round...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: LaBine's Goal Enables Bruins to Tie Toronto; Celtics Top Syracuse | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

...chased her about a mile, finally slowed down as his speedometer indicated 100 m.p.h. Just then he saw the Chevrolet start to weave back and forth across the three southbound lanes of the parkway. On one wild weave to the right it smashed into the rear of a Thunderbird convertible hugging the curbside, shattered it. The Thunderbird's driver, 47-year-old Richard Sperling, a Connecticut laundry manager and father of two, died instantly. The Chevrolet swerved onto a shoulder, rolled over four times. Christine was only dazed when she was dragged out. She stayed overnight in a Bronx...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOUTH: Ruin Around a Rebel | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

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