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...late famed industrialist Hugo Stinnes: "I announced last week that next May I will set out to circle the globe and visit all important countries of both hemispheres, accompanied only by two male auto mechanicians. We shall proceed as much as possible by land in a six-cylinder German sedan accompanied by a high speed truck. I have already won the 1926 South German reliability tour of 500 miles against a field of 50 male and female drivers." Lord Amherst: "My cousin, Miss Victoria Drummond, a god-daughter of Her late Majesty, Queen Victoria, recently obtained her 'ticket...
...name that the young Nationalist Government has recently conquered the Southern half of China (TIME, Dec. 13). To the Nationalists it is enough that little Mrs. Sun bears the name of their great dead leader. Today she resides at Wuchang, the new Nationalist Capital, drives about in a Dodge sedan, and is the living symbol of a great movement, Nationalism...
...armies that are sweeping upon Shanghai are noticeably well trained in effective warfare. They repeatedly defeat forces of greater numerical strength. the chief instructor of those armies is a graduate of M. I. T. With the advancing forces rides a vigorous woman in a sedan chair. Her mere presence electrifies tiring and hungry soldiers into instant activity. She is Chung Ling Soong, widow of Sun Yat Sen, who has become a God to half of China. She is a graduate of Wesleyan College, Georgia, one of the first colleges for girls in the South. When Pelin falls and a unified...
Rising from her dive, she saw a woman standing on the shore. Would Mrs. McPherson come with her to see a dying baby? In a sedan parked by the shore, another woman sat holding a bundle baby-wise; she got into the car, a coat was thrown over her head, a sickly sweet odor sickened her. . . . She woke somewhere in a cot at dawn. Two men stood over her. One of them was named Steve. The woman's name was Rose. They told her that she could go free as soon as her mother (Mrs. Minnie Kennedy...
Time became a jumbled cinema- weird faces, threats, and curses . . . long drives by night in the sedan. She was always bound and gagged. Her captors burned her fingers with cigars to make her help them get the ransom. If she did not . . . Steve and his fellow rogue murmured apart, spoke of selling her to a man named Felipe. They cut off her hair, threatened to cut off a scarred finger and send it to her mother. "I prayed constantly and talked to them of God. I'll bet they were tired of hearing my preaching. . . ." Then the cabin, somewhere...