June 1955 Issue of Willys News on eBay

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1. BrettNovember 19, 2014 at 12:25 PM

   "PER CENT", that kind of caught my eye. I have always seen it used as one word 'percent'. Thought it might of been a typo, then I see they used it the same in the body of the story. Maybe it was used that way in the past or the writer just used it that way. Brett
2. SE Pennsylvania SteveNovember 19, 2014 at 3:22 PM

   I wonder who was the TV-Movie Star that learned to drive a jeep?
3. deilersNovember 19, 2014 at 7:25 PM

   Brett, same here. I've never used 'per cent', but apparently that's an acceptable spelling: http://grammarist.com/spelling/percent-per-cent/ Steve, I can't tell who it was either.
4. JoeBNovember 19, 2014 at 11:28 PM

   Movie/TV star... Got it... I'm pretty good at reading without my glasses, so I can often pull words out of low resolution text. Looked like "Miss Thel..." to me. How many women's names start with those letters? Had to be "Miss Thelma". Searched on "Movie TV Star Miss Thelma" Found a reference to Thelma Ritter. Went for the long shot: Used Google to search on: "Thelma Ritter 1955 learns to drive jeep" Bingo Follow the link Google returns to the Foresthillsclub dot org PDFs Thelma_Ritter_Article dot pdf In the second column, about three quarters of the way down is the "learning to drive a jeep" reference. The movie? More searching using her name and 1956, the likely date that the movie would be released. "The Proud and the Profane" Searched on the movie name. The entire movie is posted on youtube. At 23:05... is that Thelma in a Jeep? (Yeah, I know: "JoeB, Get a Life!") JoeB
5. deilersNovember 20, 2014 at 1:23 AM

   Great work Joe! I like the blow-by-blow reporting, too :-)