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...lifelong Republican, landed one day last week in pastel-painted Charlotte Amalie, the sign on the hangar that says "Harry S. Truman Airport" was tactfully shrouded by a big welcome banner. Next day Alexander, a Negro contractor from Des Moines, climbed up on the back seat of a crimson Chevrolet convertible and headed a brass-band parade up the Kronprindsensgade (Crown Prince Street) and down the Dronningensgade (Queen Street). At the Emancipation Garden where the Danes* freed their slaves in 1848, he was sworn in as the first Republican governor of the Virgin Islands (pop. 26,665, of whom...
...winner: Studebaker, which drove off with three of the eight firsts. In the low-priced field ($1,500 to $2,050 f.o.b. factory), a six-cylinder Studebaker Champion beat out two Fords (the low-price winner for four years), a Plymouth and a Chevrolet, clicked off the run at an average 29.58 miles per gallon. Studebaker's bigger V-8 Land Cruiser won the upper-medium-price ($2,401 to $3,000) field for automatic transmission cars with 24.57 m.p.g., and the same car with standard transmission and overdrive won the sweepstakes grand prize by lightfooting it over...
...auto sales race this year, Ford hopes to bump Chevrolet out of first place, Buick aims to take over third from Plymouth. Last week, as the first-quarter production returns were in, both Ford and Buick were out in front of their competitors. In the first three months, Ford turned out 369,620 cars while Chevrolet made 358,769. Buick's production of 131,-775 was well ahead of Plymouth...
...thinks that there is a trend to small cars, for city and suburban driving. If the Metropolitan catches on, he will be in a position to step up production rapidly. However, the car's handicap is its price. The Rambler Deluxe is only $100 more, and Ford and Chevrolet come within $200 of it, f.o.b. Detroit, on their cheapest models. But Mason thinks hard selling can put the car over. Says he: "Our refrigerator boys are selling, and they had a tough time. If they can sell, the automen...
Night after night, Webb sat in the back seat of the police Chevrolet, listening to the radio's unemotional reports of crime and human weakness, watching every move of the two detectives. After hours, he asked for coaching. How did they frisk a suspect? How did they kick in a door? Once he told Wynn: "Talk like a cop." The detective bristled. "We don't talk any different than you do." "Well," said Webb, "what would you do if you had a suspect?" Said Wynn: "Why, I'd go down to R & I [Records and Identification...