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Within 15 minutes the wrecker had the Reo towed away. To extricate it, the owner made a trip down to police headquarters for a claim ticket, then, with five dollars "to cover towing charges" he asked the garage for the vehicle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Transmission Ground Along Behind | 10/13/1953 | See Source »

...many soubrette roles. She knows that her voice has not enough weight, dramatic color and power for such heavyweight parts as Aïda, but some day she would like a try at such lyric roles as the consumptive courtesan Violetta in La Tramata, or the heart-wrecker, Manon. Bing has promised her a Mimi (the consumptive heroine of Bohème) next month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Soprano from Spokane | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

...policy, scurrilously attacked the U.S. In its next issue, Blitz compared Nehru with Hitler, said: "There is as much deterioration in the moral fiber of Nehru as there is in the moral strength of the so-called Congress [Party]. The sponsor of civil liberties in 1936 has become the wrecker of liberties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Next to Godliness? | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

January. In Leavenworth, Kans., a nightclub offered free wrecker service to its motorist patrons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 1, 1951 | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

Follow Through. In Oklahoma City, 18-year-old Private Archie L. Labeau admitted stealing a 1948 wrecker from a garage in order to retrieve a 1936 Ford sedan which he had already stolen and stalled in a ditch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 16, 1950 | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

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