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...CARS THAT DRIVE THEMSELVES The idea of an "automatic vehicle" first showed up in concept cars of the 1950s. Sensors in the road and the car were supposed to do all the work, but they have never moved past prototype. Unlike, say, seat warmers...
...that made Jean Harlow a star. Two years later, Hughes produced the best and most brutal of the early gangster dramas, Scarface. After a decade-long vacation from films, he made The Outlaw, a notorious Western whose main point of interest was Jane Russell's bosom. By the mid-1950s, he had run a major movie studio, RKO, into the ground. Then he vanished into eccentricity...
...Jinx radio show, with hosts Falkenburg and McCrary, first aired in 1946 and featured guest interviews as well as reports on such weighty topics as the atom bomb and venereal disease. Its success spawned a television offshoot called At Home that also starred the two. By the 1950s, the couple's franchise included two radio shows, a TV show and a column for the New York Herald Tribune. Tex and Jinx, as they were popularly known, separated in the 1980s. McCrary died in July...
...these brands at mass merchandisers such as Wal-Mart and Target, "they think shopping at PacSun is cooler," says Jennifer Black, a retail-stock analyst for Wells Fargo Securities. She adds that there is little danger of the surf trend's evaporating, as it has been around since the 1950s...
...Fearless Jones novels share the same richly atmospheric setting as Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins series: black Los Angeles in the pre--civil rights 1950s, a sweltering fever dream of boardinghouses and all-black bars built on the frayed fringes of Raymond Chandlerville. Of course, Mosley is better known for Rawlins, but in many ways the Fearless Jones books make better reading: they're lighter on their feet, funnier and and quicker paced. At the beginning of Fear Itself, Fearless turns up on Paris' doorstep with a tale of woe involving a missing business partner, a mysterious woman, detectives...