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...motorist on Grand Central Parkway beyond the end of the runway saw it coming and dived for his automobile's floorboards. One of the DC-4's massive, spinning wheels banged across the top of his car, bent it down a full six inches, left him unhurt. The plane lurched on, shearing off light poles, slammed back to earth, slid with a crash of metal, and stopped beside a stagnant pond. Then it burst into flames...
...Manhattan, the hero's tale of the man who jumped for the bit to stop a runaway horse was re-enacted in modern terms by a motorist named Hugh Kelly. Seeing a taxicab out of control with its driver slumped over the wheel, Kelly swung his own car in front of the cab, eased it to a stop. The cabdriver, victim of a heart attack, was dead by the time an ambulance arrived...
...liniment flopped. A new shaving cream, a brushless one concocted by a company chemist, did little better, until Allan got his big idea. One day in 1926, he climbed into his car, drove out into the country near Minneapolis, posted signs so spaced and inscribed that a speeding motorist could read as he rode...
...score of ripped fenders were mailed in (though the Odells insist that no motorist has ever cracked up because of the signs), and Burma-Vita duly paid...
Colonel Melvin Hall, U.S.A.A.F (ret.), has led the life that small boys and commuters dream of. His father, a successful Vermont businessman, was a passionate canoeist, boxer, bicyclist, motorist and traveler, and he shared those hobbies with his son just as soon as Melvin was out of diapers. At twelve, young Hall made his first tour of Europe (in a Pan-hard); at 17, he was ridden clear around the world; at 18 he attended George V's Coronation Durbar (1911) in India, watched the imperial sweat drip from the ermine band of the royal crown, while rajahs...