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Ford, which hates to take a back seat to Chevrolet, this week showed off its answer to Chevrolet's Corvette sports car. On view at Detroit's Auto Show is the company's first production sports car, a handsome racy-looking convertible called the Thunderbird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Ford's Sport | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

Strange Coincidence. In early November Scofield got Crooner Arcesi booked into Las Vegas' Thunderbird nightclub. Under an assumed name, Scofield invited a local part-time I.N.S. correspondent to dinner at the club. By coincidence, U.P.'s Los Angeles Bureau Chief Bill Best was also in town, and Scofield invited him too. When Arcesi came on to sing his song, Model Ariel Edmundson sat at a front table by herself, decked out with clues from all over the U.S.-a swizzle stick from Manhattan's Stork Club, matches from Miami, a dress from San Francisco -but no mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Gimmick Man | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

...Thunderbird's Egg. Southwest's majority owners, ex-Test Pilot John H. Connelly, 48, president, and Cinemagent & Play Producer Leland Hayward, board chairman, hatched the airline from their wartime partnership in the Thunderbird cadet flying schools (TIME, June 9, 1941) and their wartime cargo line across the Pacific. At war's end, with $2,000,000 in capital and the backing of such Hollywood bigwigs as Jimmy Stewart, Brian Aherne and Darryl Zanuck, they got a three-year experimental charter from CAB for their West Coast feeder service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Small-Town Big-Timer | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...dream of rain making is as old as man. For centuries, Chinese suppliants, barechested, short-trousered, and wearing bands of green grass about their heads, have paraded with their dragons and beaten gongs to bring rain. In the U.S., Indians still propitiate the Thunderbird with symbolic dances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: The Rain Makers | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...discount to "Thunderbird College" was being studied by the House Surplus Property Committee. Said Chairman Roger C. Slaughter (D., Mo.): "This may be a perfectly legitimate enterprise, but it is worth looking into." Among Thunderbird's backers: five Phoenix and New York banks, several U.S. firms doing business in Latin America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Thunderbird College | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

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