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Traveling Home. Advancing years have sapped none of Hammond's enthusiasm. His latest love: a 20-ton trailer, which he designed and built. It has a kitchen, two bedrooms, two bathrooms, its own water supply. From stem to stern, it teems with gadgets, from an intercom to an electric dishwasher...
...Sure," said Hammond, "if you can build one to lift a 20-ton trailer...
Swarthy Django Reinhardt, now 36, is an almost illiterate gypsy who was born in a roulotte (trailer) and only recently has succumbed to houses. As a boy he played gypsy music on the guitar and violin. When he was 19, he heard a record of Louis Armstrong's Dallas Blues. Said he: "The rest of the orchestra-c'est mauvais, but Louis-il est formidable!" After listening to records by Armstrong, the Duke and Tommy Dorsey, he got together in 1935 with a hot fiddler named Stephane Grapelly, organized the Quintet of the Hot Club of France (three...
...bureau reported the incident of the small Frenchman in a big beret who drove up to the Luxembourg Palace, where some 1.200 delegates have been trying to write the peace, prepared to do business with the authorities in charge. He parked his car, which was equipped with a padlocked trailer loaded with intricate contraptions, and sent in his card to the secretariat. He was given an immediate audience...
While students miles away in the University of Missouri are living in trailer camps and sleeping there deep in the gymnasium, authorities here confidently expect "shrinkage" in registration figures to ease present chaotic housing conditions to a satisfactory level. Within a matter of weeks, they predict, students temporarily bunking in the Athletic Building will be allotted dormitory space...