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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bootlegging or the race for first place between Ford and Chevrolet rather than to their own lack of sales enterprise. Denver Chevrolet Dealer Bud Viner blamed his average $275 discount on bootleggers who take advantage of Denver's freight rate ($150 from Detroit) to bring in cars by tow. Said he: "There are more new cars on used-car lots in Denver than in new-car dealer showrooms." But the big reason for price cuts was that buyers became accustomed to them in the last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Buyer's Market | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

Instead of the customary three lectures, O'Brian will probably give only tow, according to Paul M. Herzog, Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration. This is because of the short time he has had to prepare for the lectures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: O'Brian to Give Godkin Lectures in Late April | 1/14/1955 | See Source »

Leaving her two children, Yasmin, 4 (daughter of Prince Ali Khan), and Rebecca, 9 (daughter of Orson Welles), frolicking at Lake Tahoe, Cinemactress Rita Hayworth, with her fourth husband, Crooner Dick Haymes, in tow, journeyed to nearby Reno for the climax of a Versailles among divorce settlements. Yasmin was the prize. For her, Prince Aly signed away a princess's ransom of the estimated $500 million fortune of his aging (77) father, Ago Khan, who dotes on Yasmin and will treasure her as one of his four heirs.* To Rita will come more than $1,500 a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 29, 1954 | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

...Cambridge police force announced yesterday that two tow trucks will remove double parkers in front of the Lampoon Building tomorrow. Parking violators, however, will not receive tickets tomorrow afternoon, due to a special police dispensation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police, Hotels, Dance Chairmen Prepare for Big Weekend Crowds | 11/19/1954 | See Source »

...until my ball pen was working, she told me about Debbie's next picture for Paramount Studios, which is a thriller-diller, but I've lost my notes and I can't remember much else about it. Then Debbie walked over near us with a bunch of Puddies in tow, and I noticed her nicely tailored grey flannel dress, which fit like a soaking-wet nightgown. The lady from RKO lent me her hanky so I could wipe my chin and introduced me. Ripping out my pen, I made the accompanying sketch as she turned to another interlocuter and then...

Author: By David Royce, | Title: Some Enchanted Tea Time | 11/17/1954 | See Source »

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