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...Detroit exhibit, auto designers had an imaginative picnic displaying postwar "dream cars." Dreamiest of the lot was a design by free-lance artist Ray Russell (see cut) who described the features: "Drive across Texas at 100 miles an hour . . . the tail fin to line her up at this speed. Plug in the two-way radio to order your dinner ahead. ... For a short cut across a river ... the Amphibian is at home on the water. . . . Navigation lights are for cruising on a Venetian night. The four-wheel drive shifts to propellers. . . . The air-cooled motor in the rear operates...
Foreign Newscaster Eric Sevareid told readers of the Saturday Review of Literature: "What annoys . . . the more intelligent soldiers are the broad suggestions that one particular spark plug, engine assembly or airframe is unbeatable, naturally better than the enemy's, and is winning the war. ... If advertising men had to sign their own stuff. . . . They would soon find out from their 'fan mail' what pleases and what outrages their public, especially those members of it now wearing uniforms or artificial legs...
Attorney General Francis Biddle hailed the indictment as "shutting off one of the worst leaks of strategic materials . . . to the enemy." But what mystified many a plain citizen, as well as financier, was: Why had the Justice Department waited two years to plug the "worst leak...
Miss Spark-Plug. When the chief WAC was a little girl in curls, she read aloud from the Congressional Record to her father, Lawyer Isaac William Culo. of Killeen, Tex. She thought at first she would like to be a foreign missionary. Later she thought she might go on the stage...
...became the Post's executive vice president. Post colleagues called her "Miss Spark-Plug." On the side she acted in amateur thea tricals, collected Georgian silver and rare books (she describes herself as "bookish...