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...Ernst married an American girl who had attended the Dayton Art Institute. When she happened on the oils stuffed in a trunk, her husband assured her: "They're nothing-just some junk I got gypped on." Unable to dismiss them from her mind, Mrs. Ernst spent seven years trying to identify them in art books and libraries. Finally, in 1945, she convinced her husband that they should take the paintings to New York. Art dealers there declared the badly cracked canvases to be worthless fakes or copies. But by searching in the New York Public Library, the Ernsts found...
Commuter airlines are a phenomenon; as recently as three years ago, only twelve were in existence. The industry's growth is due ironically to the arrival of the jet passenger plane on trunk lines and lately on the nation's 13 feeder or local airlines as well. The jets are expensive to fill, and airlines, as a result, are flying farther between touchdowns and slashing service to smaller cities. "The simple fact of the matter," says HUB'S Bailey, "is that the big carriers can't afford to run a $5,000,000 airplane...
...Just as we would forgive the earthworm for not knowing that the roots, trunk and leaves of the oak tree are really one entity, so must we forgive Bishop Pike if he cannot see that Father, Son and Holy Spirit are really one. Please, no trial. The bishop is neither heretic nor prophet-simply out of his depth...
After a crash program to speed engineering and styling, Chrysler Corp.'s Chrysler-Plymouth division last week rolled out its first 1967 Barracuda, a sleek new car with long hood, short trunk, fancy waffle grille and such flashy features as a wall-to-wall rear window, snap-open gas-tank cover, wood-paneled dashboard. The Barracuda, which began in 1964 as a jerry-built fastback body mounted on an old-fashioned Valiant chassis, up to now has been a pretty tame fish in a very turbulent pond. The completely new Barracuda, whose prices will start at approximately...
Other incidents Brown relates--meetings with an African game hunter who milks cobras for a living and a cabdriver who insists the boards have to ride in the trunk--are genuinely amusing and sustain the film...