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...suspected one Franklin L. Dodge Jr., a onetime U. S. Prohibition agent, of conspiring with Imogene Remus, his wife, to get his money and his life. Mrs. Remus and Dodge were paramours, Remus said. So, the morning Mrs. Remus started for court to press her divorce suit, George Remus drove alongside her car in a Cincinnati park, chased her across the grass, shot her dead. He was allowed to act as his own lawyer in his murder trial. The trial became a disorderly farce. The jury acquitted him on the ground of temporary insanity. Committed to the asylum, Remus successfully...
...anyway all those he knows by their first names, went down to Ascot Heath last week. Whether it is rainy or the sun is shining, the King and all smart Britishers must go to Ascot every year. From Windsor with his good wife and the Prince of Wales he drove through the rain in a landau drawn by six perfectly matched greys mounted by postillions in scarlet coats frogged with gold. He saw Lord Derby's Toboggan, a nice bay filly, win the $25,000 Coronation Stakes while his own horse, Scuttle, came in third; he saw Brown Jack...
Prudent, the fellow drove to a police station, where he called cheerily, "Ullo! This bloke inside me cab wants to go to Bucking'am Palace. What...
Joyously the Latin Quarter students, who make it a prankish point to always use fiacres instead of taxis, assembled 39 of their favorite and seediest cab drivers at the Porte de Pantin, to greet jovial Red Beard Hartmann when he drove in last week. For the rest, Tout Paris is ever ready to join in good-humored shouts at a spectacle so nice as a parade of 40 old men and 40 old nags up the Champs Elysees and on to the Eiffel Tower...
Like Henry Ford, Alexander Winton, R. C. Durant, and Eddie Rickenbacker, Louis Chevrolet drove racing cars before he gave his name to an automobile company. A name is also the only connection that Louis Chevrolet has with the Chevrolet Motor Company. The name suggested speed, the company wanted it, so Chevrolet sold...