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Delmar, a 34-year-old damyankee who looks like Harold Lloyd, was born in Boston. He originated the Claghorn character, but Allen writes the gags. Kenny once knew a Texan who had the Senator's trick of saying a few words, then backing up like a flivver in a rut and saying them over again. For 15 years, Announcer and part-time Actor Delmar has been entertaining friends with his Claghorn act. Fred heard him and signed...
This flying flivver (which is actually flying) has no ailerons, elevators or rudder. A movable wing, which can be tipped in any direction by a single steering-wheel, takes over the work of all three. A motor behind the passenger compartment spins a pusher propeller that sticks out where the rudder would normally be. The front wheels are steerable, as in an automobile. The plane's sponsors, Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., admit that the loose-jointed wing is still in the experimental stage. But they hope that the perfected version will make light airplanes as easy to manage...
...hear news of the company's postwar plans. The news: Ford will build a new, low-priced car which will be 20 to 25% cheaper than the regular Ford line (TIME, Oct. 11, 1943). This is the car which automen have gossiped will be the up-to-date flivver, will sell for $500. Actually, the company carefully refrained from putting a price on the new car; it still does not know whether its prewar line will be sold at 1941 prices, or higher. But Ford made clear that, while it tools up for the new car, its first postwar...
...Aircraft Co. engineer. Wheeler expects private plane buyers will want a four-passenger ship with a speed of at least 130 m.p.h., a range of 500 miles, priced from $1,500 to $3,500. Two surprising facts: designers, in the main, feel the public will not want 1) a flivver plane selling for $1,000 or less, if speed and comfort are sacrificed, 2) a helicopter...
...find out what caused the wreck; try to learn exactly how many people were killed, and how many injured; get their names and addresses and be sure to get the spelling straight; and call back every half hour or so. Hudson said sure, and off he went, in a flivver commandeered from a chum...