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...Marmon is specially proud. It has 210 h.p., will attain 100 m.p.h. Salesmen say it goes ten miles per gallon of gasoline. Production will start early next year, might have been delayed longer had not the 16-cylincer Cadillac come out. The car will sell at around $5,500. Spark and throttle are not on the steering wheel but on the dash. Radiator and gas tank cap are hidden. On the hubcaps the buyer may have either the name of the car or a dash of lightning. For the first time in history, one man designed the entire...
Though wily John Chapman is the only oldtime bicycle rider who has become important in promoting races, many other men now-famed in quieter trades were once pedalers. Some are: George Collett, father of National Woman's Golf Champion Glenna Collett; the late Albert Champion, A. C. Spark Plug man; Howard ("Poke") Freeman, cartoonist on the Newark Evening News; Worthington Longfellow Mitten, Davenport, Iowa, builder of bicycles. And many men still famed above everything else for their cycling days have done well in quieter trades. Frank Kramer, 18 times U. S. sprint champion, is police commissioner of East Orange...
...spark from this fire ignited some excelsior which had been left carelessly under a box car on a siding less than 100 feet from the watchmen's shanty. The freight car was loaded with small shells which exploded and set fire to other cars. Finally a car loaded with black powder in the very centre of the yard exploded and after that everything went...
...publication of unusual virility your article reporting the American Legion Convention was startlingly sterile (TIME, Oct. 20). Either none of your staff actually saw the orgy or they are all legionaries. Does it strike no spark from your terse sense of humor that tin-capped, be-goggled, middle-aged ''playboys of the western world" swarmed deliriously toward Boston to formally record in a solemn moment that they regretted the actions of local hoodlums? Coming here with one vibrant purpose, they fulfilled that purpose gloriously, overwhelmingly, only to then graciously hand all credit for the stunning victory...
...Battle Creek, Mich., Duane Thornton sprinkled gasoline on his overstuffed furniture to kill moths, rushed to the window to escape the fumes, tripped over an electric light cord. A spark from the dislodged socket set fire to the gasoline-soaked furniture, burned up $3,000 worth of furnishings...