Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clifford Pierson ("Biff") Hoffman, famed onetime (1926-28) Stanford fullback, was driving his wife and their good friends, Mr. & Mrs. John McCann, in the Hoffman car on a weekend outing to Aptos, Calif. He was allegedly speeding down a tree-lined road at 60 m.p.h. when another car popped out at an intersection. They collided. Mrs. McCann was hurled out, suffered brain concussion, severe cuts & bruises...
...Pelham. N. Y.. the street car which was the original of Cartoonist Fontaine Fox's famed Toonerville Trolley made its last trip. For the lugubrious occasion Pelham became Toonerville. Pelham residents whom Cartoonist Fox caricatures in Toonerville Folks acted their parts-Conductor Dave Campion (The Skipper). stopped the car to get a shave, load a passenger on the roof; Commuter Robert A. Cremins (The Terrible Tempered Mr. Bang), flew into a pet; Fireman Jack Ehrman (The Powerful Katrinka), pushed a battered auto off the tracks with one hand; Tree-climber William Scharr (Mickey McGuire) set off firecrackers. That...
...when he passed a second examination a month later (TIME. Oct. 5), Harvard's President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 80, suffered a fractured nose and possible fractured arm in Plymouth, Mass.. when his auto, which he was driving from Boston to Cape Cod, collided with another car...
Pumpernickle Bill's car is a familiar sight on Pennsylvania roads. He averages about 30,000 miles a year, taking in Grange meetings, bee inspections, potato demonstrations. He has been writing his friendly column of anecdotes since the death in 1924 of Obediah Crouthamel (real name: Solomon DeLong), to whose column he was a contributor. Pumpernickle Bill's slogan is: "Fergess net, un schreib alsa mohl" (Don't forget to write sometime). A feature of his column is: "Glawwas Odder Net, Ow'r" (Believe It or Not). Sample...
...months ending June 30 Hupp Motor Car Corp. last week reported a net loss of $349,966 against a net loss of $479,551 for the first half of 1936. In a year of booming automobile sales this reduction by itself might appear small comfort to an old and long stagnant motor-maker. But the true state of Hupp was discernible last week not in its profit & loss account but in the balance sheet and in its big plant off Detroit's East Grand Boulevard. In both of these stagnation lurked no longer...