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...Chicago, a center of the U.S. television industry, old hands catalogued brash, upstart young Earl W. (for William) Muntz as merely another California screwball when he invaded their city and their business four years ago. They knew that "Madman" Muntz's zany advertising, depicting himself as a lunatic in a Napoleon hat ("I buy 'em retail, sell 'em wholesale. More fun that way!") had made him the used-car king of Los Angeles. But they assumed that the tough TV business would soon drive him really crazy...
Trail Blazer. In Kansas City, Mo., cops had no trouble following the trail of Earl Dean Thompson, 32, who heaved a hammer through a plate-glass store window, rammed his auto into a parked car, veered off and jumped the curb, struck two trees, drove back onto the street, smashed into a corner stoplight...
State, the Earl of Home: "When we saw the contempt with which you treated the weather, then Scotland was at your feet." But the Queen was beginning to have qualms. Said Salote in a broadcast to her people: "Much as we have liked to stay in England, I think I must end by saying that we are looking forward to traveling home . . . The English weather has been very nice, and warm, but cold at times." Though it also rains in Tonga, it is always warm...
...heady 19205, when the world of sport boasted such immortals as Babe Ruth. Jack Dempsey, Earl Sande. Bobby Jones. Red Grange, Walter Hagen and Man o' War, the gentlemanly game of tennis came out of the private clubs into the national limelight. The man responsible for this revolution was a lanky, hunch-shouldered, hawk-faced competitor named William Tatem Tilden II. He was the greatest tennis player the world has ever seen, the one man in any U.S. sport who was without a peer. He did not always look as good as he really was. Determined never...
...Homer Earl Capehart, the onetime phonograph maker from Indianapolis, was for years a target for the bitter sneers of liberals and laborites from both major parties. Last week the old critics were cheering Homer Capehart while ranged against him were such old-time friends as the National Association of Manufacturers and Robert Alphonso Taft. The issue, that brought about this strange shift of forces: Republican Senator Capehart's bill to provide standby controls on prices, wages and rents...