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Other engineering changes: ¶A new hydraulic steering mechanism, the "Hydraguide," which eliminates 80% of the pushing & pulling normally done by the driver, makes it possible to park at the curb with one finger on the wheel. ¶New shock absorbers which take the bumps out of the roughest ride. ¶Forced air cooling that cuts the wear & tear on brake linings. ¶A peppy new torque converter transmission, as good as Buick's Dynaflow or Oldsmobile's Hydra-Matic...
...Wharton invited him to call. Drunk, and with his inferiority complex working overtime, he accused her of knowing nothing about life. Improvised Fitzgerald: "Why, when my wife and I first came to Paris, we took a room in a bordello!" Edith Wharton and her friends showed no surprise or shock. As Fitzgerald paused, Edith Wharton said, "But Mr. Fitzgerald, you haven't told us what they did in the bordello." Fitzgerald had no answer for that one. Stuck with his lie and shocked by it himself, he left the party, went home to Zelda and cried, between drinks, "They...
...Veterans Administration read the letter and got the shock of its life. For the past three years, a disabled World War II veteran wrote, he had been getting $100 a month for on-the-job training as a butcher, and $12 to $15 a month in disability payments. "Now," he said, "I feel like the Government has done enough for me, especially with so many fellows coming back from Korea all shot up. There are enough of us sucking the country dry, and it's time . . . we started giving." Enclosed were two Government checks, totaling $126.40, which...
...guys are critics, are you? Well, let me tell you something. I'm the best goddam writer in this here goddam country . . ." Next day, after reading the proofs of Main Street, Mencken wrote to Nathan: "Grab hold of the bar-rail, steady yourself, and prepare for a terrible shock . . . That lump . . . by God, he has done the job . . . There is no justice in the world...
...writer thereof was 28-year-old Managing Editor John S. Smith, Republican. Smith, whose daily editorials are rarely seen by Owner Seaton until they appear in print, had no intention of pulling a fast one on his boss. Said he: "It was my way of shocking the public into a little sound thinking . . . Republican papers should give the party a shock once in a while to keep them on their toes." But one shock was all Editor Seaton expected to get. After "a little talk" with Smith, Seaton was certain that there would be no more anti-Republican editorials...