REPAIRMEN MAY GYP YOU-1951
"For six months," says The Neiv York Herald Tribune, "the two authors of this perturbing little volume made a nationwide investigation of the higher nature, if any, of the American repairman. Buying a used car of distinguished make, they engaged the assistance of a lady who looked more helpless than she was, and traveled 19,000 miles, with 1,700 calls on repair shops." "And no one," adds the Boston Post, "could ever pass this book with indifference Whatever your experience with repairmen may have been, you'll find its counterpart here. You will point it out with great satisfaction, and you'll say: 'There! That's exactly what happened to me once.' And you're lucky if it has happened only once. The Post can't think of any subject for research that touches more people. Buy this book, and you will get your money back, over and over, in amounts saved through your wisdom." "There are some amusing stories in it," says the Baltimore Sun, and the Washington Post thinks that the funniest were "the authors' experiences with the Rube Goldberg testing machines used by some shops to impress customers." "The articles in The Reader's Digest were interesting," remarks the Springfield Republican, "but they left room for doubt. The book, however, with details of the almost laboratory caution used by the authors in making their tests, is alarmingly convincing."
"For six months," says The Neiv York Herald Tribune,
"the two authors of this perturbing little volume made a
nationwide investigation of the higher nature, if any, of the
American repairman. Buying a used car of distinguished
make, they engaged the assistance of a lady who looked
more helpless than she was, and traveled 19,000 miles, with
1,700 calls on repair shops."
"And no one," adds the Boston Post, "could ever pass
this book with indifference Whatever your experience with
repairmen may have been, you'll find its counterpart here.
You will point it out with great satisfaction, and you'll say:
'There! That's exactly what happened to me once.' And
you're lucky if it has happened only once. The Post can't
think of any subject for research that touches more people.
Buy this book, and you will get your money back, over and
over, in amounts saved through your wisdom."
"There are some amusing stories in it," says the Baltimore
Sun, and the Washington Post thinks that the funniest were
"the authors' experiences with the Rube Goldberg testing
machines used by some shops to impress customers."
"The articles in The Reader's Digest were interesting,"
remarks the Springfield Republican, "but they left room
for doubt. The book, however, with details of the almost
laboratory caution used by the authors in making their tests,
is alarmingly convincing."
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AUTOMOBILES 69<br />
in the road ahead.<br />
... So this dictaphone works<br />
out okay.<br />
. . .<br />
We are driving toward Charleston. . . . It's<br />
raining very hard . . . road is narrow but<br />
smooth . . .<br />
Lioy does a good job of driving.<br />
. . . It's kind of fun to think about . . .<br />
sitting<br />
here in a warm, smoothly running auto, rolling<br />
through the Carolinas toward the sea, turning<br />
out occasionally for an old Negro plodding<br />
homeward in the rain . . .<br />
talking, literally<br />
talking, to you up<br />
there in New York.<br />
Teachers Convention at Charleston . . . hotels<br />
all filled. ... I pulled up<br />
in front of disreputable-looking<br />
cabin . . . sent Lioy on<br />
ahead. . . .<br />
Lioy said : "I can take anything you<br />
can, John Patric!" I took cabin, paying about<br />
twice as much as it was worth when it was new.<br />
. . . Old stove in there, wired together.<br />
. . .<br />
Only thing I<br />
could get<br />
for breakfast was soda<br />
pop and peanuts.<br />
. . .<br />
On way back from Key West. ... By daylight<br />
Saturday the trip was far too interesting to talk<br />
to you . . . alligator on highway . . . had a<br />
bowl of conch chowder lime . . .<br />
meringue pie<br />
at another place.<br />
. . . You can see nothing but
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