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Sedan Wagon. Hudson Motor Car Co. brought out the "Jet" sedan, which can be converted into a station wagon by taking out the back seat and dropping the partition between the rear seat and trunk. Price: $1,665, plus taxes and delivery...
...began. The next sheet in the scroll, dated 1913, tells of a visit by Wetherbee to the room on Commencement Day, 1913. In it, Hamilton Vaughan Ball '13 tells how Wetherbee suddenly appeared at the door, "walked to the door, of the bedroom and standing on my roommate's trunk ran his hand along the top of the door. He then asked me to do the same whereupon I discovered a round wooden plug set in the top. We removed the door found a corkscrew and with Mr. Wetherbee acting as Master of Ceremonies opened the hole." After explaining...
FREE baggage hauling will soon be stopped by eastern U.S. rail roads. The Interstate Commerce Commission has given 58 railroads east of the Mississippi (except New England) permission to charge 25? for every suitcase and 50? for each trunk a passenger checks through to his destination. (Baggage taken along by the passenger to his seat or bed room will not be affected.) FARMERS, whose estimated net 1953 income of $12.5 billion is 7% less than last year's, can expect about the same in 1954, predicted the Department of Agriculture. Prices of some farm products (beef, feed grains, wool...
Metal Magic. At the National Metal Congress in Cleveland, the industry took the wraps off some of its newest metallurgical gadgets. Among them: a lightweight, 145-lb. industrial X-ray machine made by North American Philips Co. Inc., which can be carried in the trunk of a car, used for rapid spot checks on welds, pipelines, aircraft and ship equipment; a powerful new arc-torch made by the Eutectic Welding Alloys Corp. which can eat through concrete in seconds; a hydrogen analysis machine made by the National Research Corp. which for the first time can measure the amount of hydrogen...
...present Jerry Mahoney is a reincarnation of a dummy carved by Winchell in a high school commercial art class. Like many another ventriloquist, Winchell got his start by answering an advertisement ("Amaze your friends, throw your voice into a trunk") which offered "The Secrets of Ventriloquism" (25?). After discovering that ventriloquists do not actually throw their voices but create the illusion that they do, Winchell proceeded to amaze his friends. At 14, he also impressed radio's Major Bowes, who gave him $100 first-prize money on his Amateur Hour and a $75-a-week contract to perform...