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AACA: Antique Automobile Club of America
ACD: Auburn, Cord, Duesenberg Club
ATHS: American Truck Historical Society
BCA: Buick Club of America
BDC: Bentley Drivers’ Club
CCOC: Crosley Car Owners Club
CLC: Cadillac, LaSalle Club
CCCA: Classic Car Club of America
HCCCA: Horseless Carriage Club of America
HCI: Hupmobile Club International
HET: Hudson, Essex, Terraplane Club
HHFC: HH Franklin Club
KFOC: Kaiser Frazer Owners Club
LCOC: Lincoln Continental Owners Club
LOC: Lincoln Owners Club
MAFCA: Model A Ford Club of America
MARC: Model A  Restorers Club
NAHC: Nat’l Automotive History Collection
NCCA: Nash Car Club of America
NCRS: Nat’l Corvette Restorers Society
NWC: Nat’l Woodie Club
PAS: Pierce Arrow Society
PAC: Packard Automobile Classics
POCI; Pontiac Oakland Club Intn’l
RROC: Rolls Royce Owners Club
SDC: Studebakers’ Drivers’ Club
SEMA: Special Equipment Mfgrs. Assn.
VCCCA: Vintage Chevrolet Club of America
VMCCCA: Veteran Motor Car Club of America
WPC: Walter P. Chrysler Club

IL AACA: Illinois Region, Antique Auto Club of America
CCE: Chicagoland Corvair Enthusiasts
GIRCCCA: Greater Illinois Region, Classic Car Club of America
LMR-RROC: Lake Michigan Region-Rolls Royce Owners Club
LOL: Land of Lincoln Region, PKD Club
POC: Packards of Chicagoland (Region of PAC)
VSCDA: Vintage Sports Car Drivers Assn.
WIRCCCA: Wisc. Region, Classic Car Club of America
WOTL: West of the Lake Region, Cadillac LaSalle Club
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California Legacy Plates: Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation to establish
the California Legacy License Plate Program to issue a series of specialized
license plates that replicate plates from the state's past. At least 7,500
applications for any one particular plate must be received by the DMV on or
before January 1, 2015.

Iowa Ethanol: Defeated was legislation that would have changed labeling
requirements on gas pumps to only require labeling for unblended gasoline and
E85. If the bill had passed, it would have removed labeling requirements for
ethanol blended gasoline containing 15% or less ethanol, thereby increasing the
risk of misfueling and potential engine damage. Unblended gas is required to be
labeled, but no guarantee was made that unblended gas would be available.

Maryland Historic Vehicles: The legislature tabled legislation that originally
threatened to limit the use of historic vehicles despite the inclusion of
amendments that would have protected historic vehicle owners. House and Senate
lawmakers intend to further research the issue.

Nebraska Special Interest Vehicles: Legislation to create a registration class
and special license plate for special-interest motor vehicles was signed into
law by Governor Dave Heineman. The new law authorizes a single license plate on
the rear of special-interest vehicles of any age which are being collected,
preserved, restored or maintained by the owner as a leisure pursuit and not used
for general transportation of persons or cargo. Special-interest motor vehicles
can be driven for occasional transportation, public displays, parades and
related pleasure or hobby activities. Deleted were provisions that would have
forced owners to account for all daily-driver vehicles and submit a sworn
affidavit that the vehicle would not be used for daily transportation.

Pennsylvania Year-of-Manufacture Plates: Legislation to provide vehicle owners
the option of using vintage, original model-year license plates on antique
vehicles was signed into law by Governor Tom Corbett. Vintage plates must have
been issued by the state between the years 1906 and 1975, must be provided by
the vehicle owner and legible from a reasonable distance.

West Virginia Property Tax: A bill to provide a cap on property taxes paid by
owners of vintage vehicles was vetoed by Governor Earl Ray Tomblin due to a
technical issue. It would have penalized most antique vehicle owners whose cars
are worth less than $5,000.

West Virginia Collector Car Appreciation Day: West Virginia Governor Earl Ray
Tomblin issued a proclamation recognizing July 13, 2012, as Collector Car
Appreciation Day.

FEDERAL UPDATE
Collector Car Appreciation Day: Senate Resolution 452 designates July 13, 2012
as the 3rd Annual Collector Car Appreciation Day.

Low-Volume Vehicle Production: In case someone wants to restart Crosley
production, Rep. John Campbell (R-CA) introduced a bipartisan bill in the U.S.
House of Representatives to enable low-volume car manufacturers - 1,000 a year
or less - to produce vehicles. The "Low Volume Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Act"
directs the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the EPA
to establish a regulatory structure to facilitate production of these cars. The
United States currently has just one system designed for companies that
mass-produce millions of vehicles. The cars would meet current emissions
standards and companies would be permitted to install clean engines already
certified by another manufacturer. The bill will be reintroduced for
consideration when the new Congress convenes in 2013.

E15 Ethanol: The EPA has made it "illegal" to put E15 in pre-2001 vehicles, but
all we have to warn us is a gas-pump label cautioning motorists not to misfuel
their older vehicles. The ruling is still subject to further court review.
There's an effort to ban all E15 sales until the National Academies study is
released on E15 damages.

ALABAMA
December 8, Bay Minette
ChristmasFest Car Show
Sponsor: Gear Jammers Car Club
Info: info@...

ARIZONA

December 8, Queen Creek
Queen Creek Christmas Car Show
Sponsor: MCSO Queen Creek & QC Family Resource Center
Info: 602-876-0000 (Deputy Lopez)

December 9, Tucson
Holiday Car Show
Sponsor: West Side Rides & Rods-R-Us
Info: 520-883-5229 (Chuck)

CALIFORNIA

December 8, Redondo Beach
5th Annual Christmas Car Show
Sponsor: Ruby's Diner
Info: www.socalcarculture.com/Images/120812CruiseattheBeach.pdf or 310-962-7438
(Larry)

December 8, Indio
Riverside County Classic Car Show & Food Trucks
Info: www.socalcarculture.com/Images/120812RiversideCounty.pdf or 760-863-8247

December 9, La Habra
2nd Annual Operation Santa Classic Car Show & Toy Drive
Sponsor: La Habra Lions
Info: http://e-clubhouse.org/sites/lahabrahost

December 15, Sun Valley Car Show
Info: www.socalcarculture.com/Images/042112Roaders.pdf or ?818-355-7568

December 30, Santa Ana
Classics Car Show
Sponsor: Gasoline Alley
Info: www.socalcarculture.com/Images/CruiseNight_Sunday_GasolineAlley.pdf or
714/550-7764

FLORIDA

December 8, Seffner
Mason Dixon Christmas Wish Show
Info: http://hr-carclub.com/Christmas-Car-Show-Dec-8%2C-2012.php

December 8, Largo
Bringing Back Memories Car Show
Sponsor: ACHAFR & Hillsborough Region AACA
Info: 813-714-1019

December 9, Sunrise
Toys in the Sun Run Car Show
Info: 954-963-2828

December 9, Mt. Dora
Guitars and Cars Show and Swap Meet
Sponsor: Renninger's Twin Markets
Info: 352-383-8393 (Terre)

December 15, Winter Park Car Cruise
Info: 407-617-4201 (Tara)

December 15, West Palm Beach
MDA Benefit Open Car Show
Info: 561-758-7144 (Bud)

NEW MEXICO
December 8, Bosque Farms
Los Lunas Toy Drive Cruz
Sponsor: Los Lunas Chamber of Commerce
Info: 505-565-2105 (Bill)

TEXAS
December 8, Wills Point
Classics on the Bricks Car Show
Info: 903-312-2363 (Tracy) or
www.willspointchamber.com/docs/Cruisin%202012-%20Car%20Show%20flyer.pdf

December 8, Canton
The Annual Old Mill Marketplace Auto/Cycle Show & Swap Meet
Info: www.rgcarshows.com/uploads/canton.pdf or 903-253-3213

Just a quick note to let everyone here know, Service Motors will be closed on
Monday, Dec. 10, but we will be open again on Tuesday.
Sorry for any inconvenience, Hope you all understand.

Butch and Fonda Williams, Service Motors Inc, 1-574-664-3313,
www.servicemotors.net

The Tombstone Western Heritage Museum in Tombstone, Arizona was fortunate to
have become friendly with the famous Ringling clown Emmett Kelly, Jr., who lived
in Tombstone.  Before Kelly passed away, he donated his 1951 Crosley to that
museum with 6,952 original miles on it, and it is radio-equipped, in excellent
condition and original except for the tubes and tires.  Museum staff drove it
into the building, drained the gas tank, and it hadn't been run since.  The
museum also had gotten a large collection of Emmett's personal memorabilia
valued at around $8,000, including three of Kelly's circus-act props - a rope,
the broom, and his umbrella.

Now the Tombstone Western Heritage Museum wants to cash out on Kelly's gifted
CD, saying that it doesn't fit the concept of their mission, or something, and
never mind that Kelly donated the car to them or that Kelly was a Tombstonian
himself. The Tombstone Western Heritage Museum  is looking to get $14,000+ for
the CD and all of Kelly's memorabilia.

It got 35 to 50 mpg, at least twice the gas mileage of most other American cars.

By Rick Feibusch, GreenCarReports
=============
Cincinnati industrialist Powel Crosley Jr. built these small, economical cars.
In May 1939, a 4-place convertible that weighed in at less than 1,000 pounds,
and sold for $250.

Being an antique auto historian and appraiser is the greatest job I've ever had.
I get to drive all sorts of cars that I've admired from afar, but never actually
had a chance to drive before.

I've always gotten a kick out of the little, economical Crosley cars built
between 1939 and 1952.

Cincinnati industrialist Powel Crosley Jr., made his fortune in radios and
appliances. By the late 1930s, he owned both the Crosley Broadcasting Corp. and
the Cincinnati Reds baseball team.

His ambitious plan was to build a small, inexpensive and economical car here in
the States. In May 1939, the new company showed its first car at the
Indianapolis Speedway: a 4-place convertible that weighed in at less than 1,000
pounds, and sold for $250.

Enlisting the assistance of his brother Lewis, an engineer, Crosley developed
assembly plants in both Richmond and Marion, Indiana. He offered sedans,
convertibles and a station wagon too. Over 14 years, Crosley sold 24,871 of
these little cars.

Crosleys quickly became the gas mileage champs of their day. In the days before
EPA gas-mileage ratings - heck, in the days before protection of the environment
was even a concept - the Mobilgas Economy Run was the gold standard for
comparing fuel efficiency among cars.

The Mobilgas Run was an on-the-road competition between Los Angeles and the
Grand Canyon that tested the gas mileage of cars under the typical driving
conditions encountered by average motorists - a far cry from today's EPA tests,
which use a standard test cycle on a "rolling road" dynamometer in a laboratory.

In the 1951 Mobilgas run, Crosley posted fuel economy of 35 to 50 mpg, at least
twice the gas mileage of most other American cars.

I recently got a chance to drive a 1951 Crosley wagon for a client in Wisconsin,
who had found the car for sale at Chequered Flag International in Marina del
Rey, California.

Little is known about the car's history, but it appears to be a fairly original
car that was restored "as needed" over the years. It is very solid original
condition with a nice (but not Concours quality) paint job, a new interior and
sorted mechanicals.

The original blue paint is still there in the interior, under the hood, and
behind the upholstery panels and carpets, although my memory has the original
cars fitted with more Spartan rubber mats.

Because this wagon is the upmarket Super model, it features a few whimsical
touches. The little car has a luxury-car-sized hood ornament, along with a
little propeller that rides proudly on the bullet-like central grille element.

Sliding behind the wheel, it amazes me how much room this little car has inside.
My only concern was that there was barely enough room between the fully extended
clutch pedal and the steering wheel for my leg. But an owner could remedy that
by moving the seat back a few inches to change the angle of attack.

Turn the key, press the button, and and the little car clatters to life. The
manual choke needs to be pulled out for the first few minutes, until the little
750cc overhead-cam engine warms up and quiets down.

The engine growled like a sports car through its peashooter-diameter exhaust
pipe. That deluded me into thinking that the little wagon might have a sporting
side. After all, engines built by Crosley were used in sports racing specials
from many European companies, including Bandini, Moretti and Siata.

But no such luck.

The Crosley was virtually no torque and a transmission that felt agricultural,
at best. The first-gear ratio was very high, the throw of the lever went from my
hip to the dashboard, and the synchromeshes must have been the laziest ones on
the planet.

After a trip around the block to get acclimated, I found the sweet spot for
engine RPMs, and was able to shift with a minimum of fishing for the gate or
gear grinding.

I have to say, however, that this is a car that requires complete concentration,
especially in urban traffic, compared to modern small cars with their automatic
transmissions, power steering and disc brakes.

Was it entertaining? You bet!

The little Crosley wagon is one of those cars that elicits smiles from the
driver, passengers, and bystanders alike. And mastering the quirky controls
produces a great feeling of accomplishment, once less concentration is needed to
drive the car smoothly.

By 1951, a Crosley wagon was becoming a rare car. Sales began to slip in 1949,
and even after adding a Crosley Hotshot roadster and a Jeep-like vehicle called
the Farm-O-Road in 1950, new products weren't able to stop the firm's decline.

In 1952, just 1,522 Crosley vehicles were sold, and production ceased in early
July. The factory was sold to General Tire & Rubber.

A plan to sell the Crosley auto division to Nash failed to materialize when Nash
merged instead with Hudson in 1954. Crosley's clever little engine lived on
until the early 1970s as an industrial and marine power plant.

The Crosley was a car for the postwar motorhead, but it can also be viewed as
one of the reasons that small cars did not have much appeal to the drivers of
the time.

As Americans were discovering the wonders of automatic transmissions, power
steering, and power brakes, with gas at less than 20 cents a gallon, the Crosley
was a car that provided prewar motoring in miniature and great gas mileage.

The package brought smiles then, and it still does today.

But it's much easier to be fuel-efficient today than it was back then.
=============
(Author Rick Feibusch is an automotive journalist, historian, and classic-car
appraiser living in Venice, California. He has been active in the car business
and vintage car hobby for more than 50 years. He last wrote about the
Nic-L-Silver Pioneer, a vanished 1950s electric car.

He has done everything from writing and editing for websites and magazines,
organizing major marque clubs, and promoting large auto events to restoring and
collecting vintage cars. He also sold Toyotas when they were new to America.
Today, Feibusch primarily does appraisals for antique, classic and sports cars
and motorcycles.

Service Motors will be closed on Monday, December 17 but we will resume
operation on Tuesday December 18.

We are sorry for any inconvenience.

Butch and Fonda Williams, Service Motors Inc., 1-574-664-3313,
www.servicemotors.net

I regret to announce that author-illustrator Tad Burness, who did so much to
remind car fans of Crosley history and accomplishments over the decades though
his Auto Album, has passed away in Pacific Grove, California.

As automotive authors go, he probably doesn't spring to the top of most people's
minds, but he's certainly one of the most referenced, and it's a good bet that
every old car fan has thumbed through his work at some point or another. Tad
Burness, who inspired many a gearhead over the years with his spotters guide
books and syndicated Auto Album feature, died last month at the age of 79.

Born Wallace B. Burness in 1933 in Berkeley, California, Tad Burness' first Auto
Album feature appeared on June 12, 1966, and he continued to produce that
illustrated daily automotive history up until his death. Since then, the Auto
Albums have been collected in four volumes, to go along with his 25 other books,
22 of which focused on automobiles. Of those, the most popular by far were from
his Spotter's Guide series, which were more of a collage or scrapbook featuring
one model year per manufacturer per page with relevant information on the
particular models scattered among the pictures. They always proved a good
resource for identifying a car's year, make, and model, and Tad always made sure
to include up-to-the-minute material in his spotter's guides rather than pick an
arbitrary end date.

Tad Burness died of heart failure on November 19.  I consider him a friend and
we'd keep in touch through letters, which of course I'll always keep.

The CCOC will officially sponsor Tad's online memorial as a way of thanking him
for almost a half-century of reminding the world that there once was an American
car called a Crosley.

=Lou=
Co-moderator, CCOC.
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Fred says:
December 11, 2012 at 9:07 am
His Spotters Guide were my textbooks as I stated learning about cars as a child.
I can't count the hours I spent poring over each page, memorizing details and
differences from year to year. My copies, including one held together with tape,
are prized possessions to this day. I appreciate your efforts, and thank you for
the knowledge you shared.

autobug2 says:
December 11, 2012 at 9:19 am
Fred, I echo your sentiments as to Tad's Spotters Guides. I too nearly memorized
each and every page as a kid, and still do to this day. Tad and I were pen-pals
starting when I was 11 years old here in Omaha. We wrote eachother weekly, and
always discussed the latest Auto Album featured in our local paper. I feel very
blessed to have had his friendship at such an early age. Ive kept every letter,
every interesting car advertisement he ever sent me. I have nearly all his
books, some he was kind enough to autograph for me. There will always be a
special place in my heart for Tad Burness. He shaped much of my world as a kid,
and gave me some very special memories. Im now 52, and have never forgotten all
the automotive lore Ive learned from him. Take care my friend. RIP
Will Fox Omaha NE.

CTRICH says:
December 11, 2012 at 12:09 pm
Will, That is a touching story and speaks volumes about Mr. Burness’
character. Thanks for sharing that.

Mark B. Morrow says:
December 11, 2012 at 9:21 am
Fred, I could not have said it better.

Thanks Tad, for your contribution to my automotive knowledge.

Diego says:
December 11, 2012 at 9:12 am
These are the books I discovered growing up. They are indispensable.

Paul F says:
December 11, 2012 at 9:21 am
I echo Fred's sentiments wholeheartedly!! One of my most desired, and valued
books was a small orange and yellow paperback book ordered from a Scholastic
Books flyer when I was in grade school. That book, which I still have,
introduced me to cars like the '48 Tucker, the chrome laden '58 Buick, the Moon,
Underslung, Marmon, Studebaker Avanti, etc. etc. I also admired and tried to
copy his drawing style. Thanks, Tad!

Satellite67 says:
December 11, 2012 at 10:28 am
I've got the same book Paul. I'm going to have to dig it out this evening.

polara says:
December 11, 2012 at 12:54 pm
I had exactly the same thought when I saw this headline. I too got my first Tad
Burness book from Scholastic Books and remember seeing his columns somewhere
years ago. Sad loss.

J.D. Hall says:
December 11, 2012 at 2:49 pm
Same here. One of my most treasured books from good ol' Scholastic Book Services
which I read over and over and which I still have in front of me as I write
this. It was a big part of launching my insatiable interest in all things
vintage and mechanical back in grade school all for the princely sum I see here
of 50 cents. Lots of memories…thanks Mr. Burness and Godspeed.

autobug2 says:
December 11, 2012 at 4:11 pm
Paul, that was the first book of Tad's that I ever got. Mine is held together
with tape as well. Tad autographed mine in October, 1971. I first wrote him as
an 11 year old that August, just before starting 5th grade.

ICEMAN aka WPGJET says:
December 11, 2012 at 9:45 am
The first car book I ever bought was the American Car Spotters Guide 1940-1965
back in 1978 from an independent bookstore at Charleswood's Park West Mall, in
Winnipeg.. The very first book in my car book collection. And to me, the most
valuable.

Stumack says:
December 11, 2012 at 11:28 am
I picked it up in 1978 in Kingston, Ontario at age 14. I'd never seen anything
like it, and much of what I know today came from that first book in my
collection.

Big Al says:
December 11, 2012 at 9:47 am
I still use Mr. Burness' Spotter's Guide from time to time. So quick and easy to
use - a great resource for settling arguments between so-called "automotive
experts".

Andrew Collier says:
December 11, 2012 at 10:39 am
In common with the other posters, your American Car Spotters Guide 1940-1965
left an indelible impression on this teenager's imagination. And yes, I still
have my original copy, dog-eared and sellotaped. Thank you Mr Burness from an
American car enthusiast in the UK. VERY much appreciated.

Matt says:
December 11, 2012 at 10:55 am
His books were on my Christmas wish list back in 1981. I was fortunate that
year's Santa bought me 3 volumes: the 1940-1965, 1965-1980 and Imported Car
Spotters Guide!

marmer says:
December 11, 2012 at 11:11 am
All I can do is echo others comments. What a wonderful resource and usually my
first go-to reference, even today. Publishers later re-packaged his work in
various compilations, so over time I have consolidated and have given away
various duplicates to very grateful recipients. There is also an American Car
Spotters Guide 1981-1990.  Also there was an American Truck Spotters Guide
1925-1970, which was republished with additional bus and van information as
Ultimate Truck and Van Spotters Guide 1925-1990.

Rest in peace, Mr. Burness. You've done a man's work.

marmer says:
December 11, 2012 at 3:00 pm
And, yes my introduction to Tad Burness was also from the Auto Album compilation
sold by Scholastic Books. You can still buy Auto Album compilations, I believe.

longrooffan says:
December 11, 2012 at 12:21 pm
Oh My Gosh. At 53 years old, this is the first I have heard of Tad's series.
Stopping at the used book store on the way home tonite. Thanks Hemmings and RIP
Mr. Burness. I love forward to falling in love with your work.

marmer says:
December 11, 2012 at 2:57 pm
Good luck, olelongrooffan. They are a little out-of-print-ish these days. You
may have to buy online. I got my last couple from online used book sellers.

John Moulton says:
December 11, 2012 at 2:40 pm
I've know Tad for several years, but only in the automotive world. He was much
more than a car guy.
I went to his memorial service and the church was absolutely packed with
friends. At the service I learned that he volunteered at Pacific Grove
Convalescent and played piano for the residents for more than 25 years. He also
was church pianist at the Peninsula Baptist Church in Pacific Grove for 15
years. And all of this without reading music. He knew every song you requested
of him by heart.
I started The Little Car Show in Pacific Grove and Tad and his wife, Sandy, were
kind enough to participate by signing his books that we, Marina Motorsports,
bought to sell and raise money for the P.G. Library and Youth Center.
I'll never forget Tad, he was a very special man and will leave a huge empty
space in many lives!

John Moulton says:
December 11, 2012 at 4:32 pm
Everyone's comments mirror what I've heard from Tad's admirers at our Pacific
Grove car show. I'm going to forward this Hemmings link to Sandy.

Al Van De Mark says:
December 11, 2012 at 7:33 pm
I was surprised by Tad Burness' death. Before I retired, I was a New England Car
Show DJ for over 25 years and have both volumes of his Tad Burgess Auto Album
which each contained his drawings of over 100 cars from 1899 through 1960, 1
drawing per page. I used these for automotive trivia at many of the shows. He
will certainly be missed by his fans like me.

Trevor Poulsen says:
December 11, 2012 at 7:52 pm
When I first heard of the Tad's "Spotters Guide", many, many years ago, I added
it to my Library, & have added new ones as they became available.
As an admirer of American Cars living in Australia, Tad's Books helped me
identify the various makes that are not seen locally.
While the first editions were Black & White, they helped me immensly with
learning the Years, Makes & Models of American cars.
I continually refer to Tad's Books when I write stories for Car Magazines.
When his latest Spotters Bible was released in full colour, naturally, I added a
copy to my Library, & have recommended it to friends.
It was encouraging to read that he not only appreciated cars, but also spent
time cultivating his Spiritual Life.
He has gone to his reward in Heaven.
Thank you Tad.

EarlWelch says:
December 11, 2012 at 8:03 pm
I am so saddened to hear of his passing. I have a Spotters Guide book for 1920
to 1980 that our youngest son gave to me for my birthday many years ago. It is
in pristine condition even though it's been referred to probably hundreds of
times. I wrote to him a few times, the first to tell him how great the book was.
He always replied promptly which doesn't always happen. His artistry and detail
were outstanding along with information. The Fresno Bee used to have an
illustration by him every Sunday and with a small writeup about the vehicle,
sure wish I had saved all of them. I'm amazed that he wasn't a lot more well
known. RIP, Mr. Burness.

TITSLINGER says:
December 11, 2012 at 8:25 pm
Me too. I discovered Tad when I bought his Car Spotters Guide from Scholastic
Book Services for .49 cents. I pored over it again and again. It was a great
educaton. If only i applied that focus to my school work. I'm sorry I never met
him especially because he was fairly local. From these recollections I see he
was just as fine a person as I had thought he might be.
Thank you Tad, for being so generous.

Mike Cibulas says:
December 11, 2012 at 9:16 pm
If I recall correctly, I first came across Tad Burness at a very young age, as
there were features in the Sunday paper that spotlighted a particular old car
every week. I have two of Tad's books, my favorite being the in-color Car
Spotters Bible from 1940-1980. I never get tired of looking through it.

In reading the comments from others here who, like me, discovered Mr. Burness'
work at an early age, I sure hope he had some idea of just how many kids he
inspired to become fascinated with the hobby which we so enjoy. It is apparent
from these comments that, for so many of us, it would become a lifelong
interest, due in large part to the passion that came through in his work. Thank
you, sir, for being such a catalyst in my love for old cars.

67MercS-55 says:
December 12, 2012 at 3:54 am
So sad to hear about Mr. Burness. I too received the 1940-65 spotters guide as
an 11th Birthday present. Mom took me to Berkshire Mall in Reading, PA to get
it. Followed up at Christmas with a 1966-80 Spotters. Got all the rest over the
next few years. Really like the Monstrous 1920-80 guide¦ big heavy book and
Tad's opus in my opinion. Thanks Tad, for making my formative years fun while
learning. I now have four oldies on my own and am involved in the hobby.

Bob West says:
December 12, 2012 at 8:12 am
RIP, Tom. How many of us grew up with his articles and later used his books as
reference sources?

autobug2 says:
December 12, 2012 at 9:28 am
One last note. I sent Tad a press photo I acquired of the `56 DeSoto Adventurer
hardtop, which he used in Auto Album, and was kind enough to thank me in the
illustration, as he did with so many. I was given a small frame for it by my
mother when it appeared in our paper. I still have it to this day, along with
every letter he wrote me.

Let's say you're a longtime, enthusiastic Voice of America listener who has the
opportunity to visit the United States, and someone like me, right now, informs
you that there's one place in America where you can find a VOA Museum. There's
even an interstate highway sign pointing drivers to an amazing VOA complex,

• the site where VOA transmitters once sent the mightiest signals in
international radio history into the heart of occupied Europe and elsewhere
during World War II;
• a three-in-one museum that chronicles VOA's story, the saga of wireless
communication going back to Marconi, and local broadcasting history in rich
detail;
• a large and beautiful park named for the Voice of America where you can hike,
fish in a 14-hectare lake, sled down a long hill, get a match going on one of 24
soccer fields or a cricket pitch, bird-watch in meadow that's an official
wildlife preserve, let your mutt loose in the "Wiggly Field" dog park, and even
get married!
• a university learning center that also carries the name of the Voice of
America;
• and even a good-sized VOA shopping center, of all things.

You would surely assume that such an immersion experience would be in
Washington, surrounding VOA headquarters on Independence Avenue and the National
Mall. Or somehow squeezed into downtown New York City, where most VOA
programming originated during the war. Those choices are too obvious, of course.
Cox Road is the place where you'll find the Voice of America "brand" on dozens
of buildings and signs and thousands of lips and is nowhere near the nation's
capital or the Big Apple. I can assure you that there isn't a VOA shopping
center, university extension, wildlife preserve or dog park anywhere near our
nondescript Washington headquarters building or the VOA news bureau in congested
Manhattan.

To picture their location, take your right hand and make a "V for Victory" sign
of the sort for which Britain's wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill, was
famous.

Your fist is the pleasant and prosperous Midwest city of Cincinnati, Ohio. And
your two uplifted fingers are busy interstate highways, the index finger heading
north toward Dayton, Ohio, and on to Detroit, Michigan; and the middle finger
angling northeastward to Ohio's capital city of Columbus and the Great Lakes
port of Cleveland.

Inside the V, what was once the rural township of West Chester has exploded from
39,700 population in 1990 to more than 62,000 today as housing subdivisions,
shopping malls, business parks, hospitals, and freeway exit clusters of gas
stations, restaurants, and motels have gobbled up almost every clod of dirt.

Save, that is, for a pretty, 253-hectare (625-acre) oasis 650 kilometers (400
miles) west of Washington where you can get that unparalleled Voice of America
"fix."

As announcer Fred Foy intoned on the old Lone Ranger radio show in the 1940s,
return with me now to those thrilling days of yesteryear for the fascinating
answer.

=============
The story begins with Powel Crosley, Jr., a man who early on had nothing to do
with the Voice of America. Crosley had his heart set on building inexpensive
automobiles but would one day be known as "the Henry Ford of Radio."

Lots of people drove Crosleys home and grabbed a beer or sandwich from their
Crosley refrigerators in the 1940s.

Powel Crosley became intrigued with broadcasting when his son asked for a radio
set as a "toy." Revolted by their exorbitant cost, Crosley was soon building
radios and their components himself. By 1924, the Crosley Corp. was the world's
largest manufacturer of desk radios and large radio cabinets of the sort you see
families gathered around in old photographs.

Crosley the radio man wanted to give people a good reason to buy his product, so
he constructed a 20-watt transmitter in his home and began broadcasting to his
neighbors.

Within ten years, the entire country would be listening, not through some
network but to Crosley's WLW - "The Nation's Station" in Cincinnati - which
generated its own elaborate programs, including the first "soap opera" using a
resident company of actors and musicians. Many of them - Doris Day and the Mills
Brothers among them - would become American superstars.

Broadcasting on medium wave at 500,000 watts - ten times the power of any other
U.S. radio station then and to this day – beginning May 2, 1934 with the
throwing of a switch by President Roosevelt in Washington, WLW bounced a signal
off the ionosphere from coast to coast and beyond. Rival stations complained
bitterly of unfair competition and interference with their signals. And when
some of them began haranguing the federal government for equal power to mount
their own superstations, Congress in 1939 rid itself of the controversy by
capping every station's power, including WLW's, at 50,000 watts.

This early informational booklet shows the unusual shape of WLW's 224-meter
(735-foot) 200-ton tower that blasted its signal clear across the continent.

The WLW megastation's programs emanated from Crosley's downtown appliance
factory, but its enormous tower – taller than the Washington Monument - sat 40
kilometers away near the little town of Mason, Ohio, in those same farm fields
mentioned earlier. For good reason. A half-million-watt signal bouncing around
downtown buildings would have played havoc with other electronic signals and
drowned out every other station in town.

Fast-forward to the early days of World War II, when Nazi Germany, too, had
developed 62 powerful transmitters, shortwave in this case, pointed across
Europe and reaching as far away as South America. German broadcasters poured out
propaganda aimed at softening resistance to Nazi aggression and diverting
America's attention. Japan, too, operated 42 long-range transmitters flooding
the Asian nations it was in the process of subjugating.

There was no equivalent American response, since the nation was trying mightily
to stay clear of war. The signals of only 13 shortwave stations, programming
innocuous entertainment, emanated from America's shores at the time.

Powel Crosley's WLWO – or WLW Overseas - was one of them. From two towers next
to the WLW monster in those corn and alfalfa fields, it beamed orchestra music,
comedy shows, crime dramas and westerns to Europe and Latin America with 75kw of
shortwave power. Following Japan's bombing of the U.S. naval base at Pearl
Harbor, Hawaii, in December 1941, and America's immediate declaration of war on
Japan and Germany, President Roosevelt summoned titans of industry and pleaded
for help in countering Axis psychological warfare. WLWO began beaming German-
and Italian-language broadcasts supplied by the Voice of America's predecessor
agency, the Office of War Information, operating out of New York. WLWO
broadcasters like Robert Bauer, who had escaped Nazi Germany by an eyelash, gave
the Third Reich a dose of its own bluster. Bauer, an Austrian like Adolf Hitler,
could mimic the Führer's speech impeccably. He would give faux rally speeches in
which "Hitler" would dissolve into stark raving lunacy - which, of course,
wasn't far removed from reality. The real madman, in turn, was heard to rail
against "those Cincinnati liars."

WLWO and other American-based shortwave stations also carried the very first
words of the new Voice of America in February 1942, when newsman William Harlan
Hale said in German from New York, "The news may be bad or the news may be good;
we will tell you the truth."

During a break in the president's meeting with the moguls, Crosley Corp.
Chairman James Shouse called his top engineer in Cincinnati and asked if the
company could build 200kw shortwave transmitters with directional antennas that
could be aimed at Europe, Africa, and South America.

"I don't know, but I will sure give it a hell of a try," replied the engineer.

And so it was that the U.S. Government purchased a 250-hectare (625-acre)
stretch of hillocks, meadows, and alfalfa fields in southwest Ohio, just down
the road from Crosley's WLW transmitter complex. This new "Bethany facility,"
named after a local telephone exchange, was ideal because of its location far
from coastlines that were viewed, in those anxious days after Pearl Harbor, as
vulnerable to Axis attack. Besides, power from companies in Cincinnati and
Dayton was readily at hand. (And boy, would Bethany need it. Once the plant was
up and operating in September 1944, the Federal Government would pay the
electric utility companies almost $900,000 a year for "juice.")

Needless to say, the Bethany project got "AA-1" priority, obtaining all the
glass vacuum tubes, steel and copper it needed, despite the strict wartime
rationing of such materials.

There in bucolic West Chester within a year and a few days, Shouse's men,
including Clyde Haehnle (still an active broadcast-engineering consultant and
one of the VOA museum's board members) constructed an impressive building the
size of a small city's airport terminal.

A former board member and the project's architect, Jim Fearing, calls it a
"temple of radio." Why so fancy for a top-secret installation, off-limits to, if
not out of sight of, the public? "Powel Crosley was a showman," says board
member Dave Snyder, the facility's supervisor in its final days. Crosley
thought, perhaps, that he'd be getting control of the building back once the war
was over. "You'd go up an impressive set of stairs to what we called `the
fishbowl,' from which you would see the whole transmitter concourse," Snyder
added.

Inside the handsome edifice, "RF," or radio-frequency, transmitters converted
low-wattage signals incoming on telephone lines into powerful ones, and six
175kw shortwave transmitters - the strongest in history, plus 24 directional
shortwave antennas sent programming, ultimately in 52 languages, skipping off
the ionosphere to overcome the earth's curvature to precisely pinpointed target
areas abroad.

"These shortwaves are not like those of our standard broadcast band," an early
VOA broadcast informed its audience. "They are the siege guns of radio, the
heavy artillery – guns of war that can hurl explosive facts against weapons of
lies and confusion, anywhere in the world."

For those of you who "speak engineering," I'm told that these manually tuned
Crosley transmitters were later replaced by even more powerful, remotely tuned
250kw Collins units.

According to one report, the Crosley engineers had to overcome "horrendous"
technical problems in mounting the new transmitter site. "New tubes had to be
designed [and built from scratch], 24 high-gain rhombic antennas improved, [and]
`re-entrant termination' advanced to keep antennas from simply melting. . . . It
was the most sophisticated antennae system ever devised."

Funny things happened out in the antenna field from time to time. Not always so
funny if you were involved, however.  John Vodenik, who spent a decade at
Bethany and now works in VOA's Network Control Center at our Washington
headquarters, recalls the day when an "electric blue" flame shot from one of the
Collins transmitters, melting a hole in the aluminum side panel and setting off
a popping sound matched only when various wildlife species would meet their
demise atop one of the 300-ohm transmission lines, or when accumulations of ice
would create a "light show" of arcs among the wires. The building did not burn
down during the blue-flame incident, but the station crew had to take the panel
to a local auto-body shop for repairs. Every once in awhile though, VOA
engineers had to call in the local fire department to extinguish flames
triggered by lightning strikes in the alfalfa. The government had allowed a
farmer to continue planting and plowing right in the antenna field.

The entire complex was surrounded by chain-link fence and closely guarded by
military sentries, some of whom slept in the observation tower above the
transmitters and control rooms. Guards would remain through the Cold War years,
after which engineers could finally allow in curious citizens and passersby for
impromptu tours.

You would not have found a single microphone at the Bethany site. It was
pragmatism - and paranoia - at work. What if enemy agents were to seize control
of transmitters that could be redirected to different parts of the world in ten
minutes?

VOA's Bethany site, like others in California and North Carolina, was considered
a "relay station," passing along, rather than originating, programming from
Washington and New York directly to international audiences or to other such
stations in North Africa, Pacific Islands, Asian locations, and elsewhere. For a
time, Bethany even connected with relay stations aboard destroyers in the
Mediterranean Sea.

In 1945 Powel Crosley, still determined to build and market automobiles, sold
WLW and all other Crosley broadcasting properties, though Crosley engineers
continued to operate VOA's Bethany site until Voice of America personnel took
over in 1963.

Beginning in 1951 during the Cold War, arrays of "curtain antennas," strung
among gigantic steel support towers, were added to Bethany's broadcast arsenal.
These arrays were oriented at different angles facing Europe and parts of
Africa. Exactly where could be changed quickly during station breaks while the
transmitters were briefly shut off. But to do it, crews of three had to hustle
out back in all types of weather and flip a series of handles by hand in a
"switching matrix" of telephone poles and wires that still survives. It looks
like a small power substation. Switches would freeze so solidly in the dead of
winter that engineers had to attach lit propane torches to poles, reach up and
melt the ice in order to throw them. Sudden shifts in frequency came often, too,
to outfox Soviet engineers who were adroit at jamming shortwave signals.

Operations continued at the Bethany Relay Station six final years after the
Berlin Wall fell in 1989, hastening the end of the Cold War. With the advent of
satellite transmissions, the need for the aging Ohio facility had declined.
Pressures on the VOA budget, plus our agency's steady move away from shortwave
broadcasting except in parts of the world where medium wave, FM, and television
broadcasting had yet to take hold, hastened Bethany's death knell. The site was
decommissioned in September 1995, and its landmark towers were pulled down soon
thereafter.

There was another factor working against Bethany as well. Its ever-increasing
number of neighbors did not find the interference from our powerful transmitters
amusing. We can laugh at the stories of a radio signal causing windshield wipers
to spontaneously erupt, neighborhood downspouts and one fellow's entire furnace
to throb with music, and a nearby church's public-address system to break into
VOA Spanish in the middle of the minister's sermon. Nearby bedsprings were a
good VOA signal carrier, too. But things got so bad that the local telephone
company passed out anti-interference filters; and car and truck manufacturers
would run new models up and down Tylersville Road, testing their shielding
against the radio behemoth's signals.

In 2000, shortly after the Bethany site was formally transferred to West Chester
Township, Bill Zerkle, the parks and recreation director, was visited by his
boss. "We're getting the VOA property," he told Zerkle, and as part of the
agreement this old transmitter building is to become a museum. "So buddy, you go
for it," Zerkle recalls the superior's instruction.

The site was carved into several pieces. Thirty hectares in the southwest corner
- thankfully only that corner given the glut of civilization already in the area
– was sold to shopping-mall developers for a "Voice of America Centre" shopping
plaza. Eight hectares went to Miami University, one of Ohio's state
universities, for a learning center. Once built in a halls-of-ivy-style columned
structure complete with classrooms and meeting spaces, it began serving 21st
century-style "swirling students." These are often working adults with what the
VOA Learning Center's Rod Nimtz calls "fluid student experiences" who are
compiling college credits evenings or weekends and adding them to those earned
years earlier and elsewhere.

The VOA Park will one day add a performance amphitheater, whose crowds may be
ripe customers for the VOA museum.

The county's "metroparks" system got 80 hectares as a nature preserve, a
recreational site - including a sledding hill that attracts snow-lovers from
three states – and a lodge for receptions, dances and weddings.

The little piece that remained of the project, including the transmitter
building, was left to the township for that unspecified museum.

Zerkle, who left the parks department to become president and CEO of the
National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting in 2007, set up shop in the
deserted, unheated building. It had been toasty warm in the days when its
transmitters, full of large and red-hot tubes, were, in architect Fearing's
words, "sucking up 3 million watts" of power; so hot were the tubes that some
transmitter components had to be cooled in vats called "water jackets," whose
rising steam heated the building. Now Zerkle was spending his winters in
sweater, coat, and hat, surrounded by little space heaters. He and volunteers
from a group called the Veterans' Voice of America Fund, later renamed The
National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting Fund, began money-raising, and
in 2008 they secured enough funds to create the museum master plan.

The "National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting" will one day, perhaps
soon, incorporate four "visitor experiences," two of which are already in place:

• Gray's History of Wireless Museum, which had previously resided in the
hallways of Cincinnati's public television station. One of the largest
assemblages of antique radio and telegraphy equipment in the country, the
collection is named for Jack Gray, a onetime Marconi Co. shipboard wireless
operator and Bethany Station engineer who began displaying artifacts in his
garage.

• and the Greater Cincinnati and Ohio Museum of Broadcasting, put together by
Cincinnati broadcaster Mike Martini, whose nonprofit Media Heritage organization
has gathered thousands of oral histories, photographs, radio scripts, early
radio shows, and the private memorabilia of area broadcast pioneers. Some of
this material had literally been rescued from trash bins after a previous
broadcast museum was closed and "mothballed."

A third component, now under construction, is a reincarnated working amateur, or
"ham" radio station, WC8VOA, whose operations will be fully visible to visitors.
Technicians had run the amateur station on the premises during the Bethany
station's operating lifetime.

The fourth and key ingredient, of course, is the building itself, with all of
its control rooms, giant transmitters and switching equipment, augmented by
recorded stories of VOA employees and those behind the Axis, Iron, and Bamboo
curtains who received transmissions from Bethany. From the moment the gates to
the property were thrown open after the feds left town, international visitors
have shown up unannounced, knocked on the door, and asked when the museum would
open. Some then told riveting, even heroic tales of surreptitiously listening to
VOA's words of truth and hope in occupied lands.

The piece-de-resistance will be a Grand Concourse and a VOA Gallery. The former
will feature an overhead oval screen so that the story of "America's Voice" can
be dramatized using a 360-degree multi-media presentation. Actors will also
portray VOA notables and broadcasters. The interactive VOA Gallery will use
artifacts, hands-on displays, and a large-scale model of the Bethany Station to
focus on the station's role in World War II and the Cold War.

The museum will also offer a gift shop, a grand tour of the restored VOA
transmitter facilities and control room from half a century ago, and, outside,
such experiences as walks along paths carefully sited along the azimuths of the
Bethany antennas' signals. Maybe even the restrooms will be part of the tour.
"There were two," Gray's Museum Secretary-Treasurer Bob Sands notes. "One for
employees and one for gentlemen"!

Earlier this summer, West Chester Township commissioners agreed with the
museum's board that the VOA Bethany site, properly promoted as a companion
tourist attraction to the nearby King's Island amusement park and a museum
complex inside Cincinnati's ornate downtown train terminal, could draw 30,000 or
more visitors annually. They allocated $1.4 million to fix the Bethany
building's crumbling glazed-block exterior, replace every door and window, and
install floodlights and ramps for disabled visitors. The move gave the museum
board confidence that the search for the estimated $14 million needed to
complete a world-class museum will bear fruit.

The degree to which the federal government's Broadcasting Board of Governors
(BBG), VOA's parent agency in Washington, will support the VOA Museum in Ohio
with funds, artifacts, or special permission to present VOA programming has yet
to be determined.

"At its core the story here is not about technology," Bill Zerkle says, with
considerable passion. "It's not even about radio or the old days. It's about a
strategy for spreading freedom and democracy that is so simple - to just tell
the truth. What these people here did was to pull together the inventions that
evolved from Marconi and create state-of-the-art technology that enabled
professional VOA media people to tell the truth about this great country. It's a
story they believed in - still believe in - and one that resonates with the
people of this area."

Folks,
I certainly am not as proficient as many with computers.  I got a suspect email
with a link, copied only half the the link, and put that in my browser to
search. Took me to the same place....how profoundly stupid of me.

End result, my address book and password were hijacked and did to me the very
thing it did to the "friend" I know who originally sent me the message.

Lessons learned, READ THE SUBJECT LINE carefully and even from a friend if you
have the slightest doubt DO NOT VISIT AN ATTACHED LINK.  Missing out on a joke
or two will not impact your life.  Getting hacked will.

If you are the victim of this kind of hack, look in your sent files to view
messages you know you did not send, clear you browser, ask a computer literate
friend or do a search to learn how and immediately change your email pass word.

If you are an Apple user apparently you are immune.

Sorry to go so far off topic but I consider it a personal violation that has
infected people I know or care about.




--- In Crosley@yahoogroups.com, Robert Kirk <kirkbrit@...> wrote:
>
> hey  hey here you go http://msn.msnbc.com-december.net/jobs/
>

Thanks, Robert and Derick. We'll always put those whose computers have been
compromised onto moderation, and that's not to be interpreted as a slight;
they're victims of these spammers.

Merry Christmas to all of us, every one.

=Lou=

~~~~~~~~~~ **-=\/=-** ~~~~~~~~~~

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity.       Robert Anthony


-----Original Message-----
From: Crosley@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 8:14 AM
To: Crosley@yahoogroups.com
Subject: =CROSLEY CAR OWNERS CLUB= Digest Number 1605

There are 2 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

1a. Re: hey!
     From: Robert K
1b. Re: hey!
     From: Moore, Derick


Messages
________________________________________________________________________
1a. Re: hey!
     Posted by: "Robert K" kirkbrit@... kirkbrit
     Date: Thu Dec 20, 2012 8:25 am ((PST))

Folks,
I certainly am not as proficient as many with computers.  I got a suspect email
with a link, copied only half the the link, and put that in my browser to
search. Took me to the same place....how profoundly stupid of me.

End result, my address book and password were hijacked and did to me the very
thing it did to the "friend" I know who originally sent me the message.

Lessons learned, READ THE SUBJECT LINE carefully and even from a friend if you
have the slightest doubt DO NOT VISIT AN ATTACHED LINK.  Missing out on a joke
or two will not impact your life.  Getting hacked will.

If you are the victim of this kind of hack, look in your sent files to view
messages you know you did not send, clear you browser, ask a computer literate
friend or do a search to learn how and immediately change your email pass word.

If you are an Apple user apparently you are immune.

Sorry to go so far off topic but I consider it a personal violation that has
infected people I know or care about.




--- In Crosley@yahoogroups.com, Robert Kirk <kirkbrit@...> wrote:
>
> hey  hey here you go http://msn.msnbc.com-december.net/jobs/
>







Messages in this topic (3)
________________________________________________________________________
1b. Re: hey!
     Posted by: "Moore, Derick" derick.moore@... derickgmoore
     Date: Thu Dec 20, 2012 8:55 am ((PST))

Sorry Kirk, BUT...

Apple users are not immune, but they are a lower profile target for a couple of
reasons.

First, a hacker has a bigger target environment when they pick Windows
platforms.
Second, hacking Apples OS doesn't provide the same 'recognition' and 'fame'. 
Hackers aren't Apple enthusiasts!

So, your advice is every bit as relevant to Apple users, just slightly less
likely to happen.

Derick

From: Crosley@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Crosley@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Robert K
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 9:26 AM
To: Crosley@yahoogroups.com
Subject: =CROSLEY CAR OWNERS CLUB= Re: hey!



Folks,
I certainly am not as proficient as many with computers. I got a suspect email
with a link, copied only half the the link, and put that in my browser to
search. Took me to the same place....how profoundly stupid of me.

End result, my address book and password were hijacked and did to me the very
thing it did to the "friend" I know who originally sent me the message.

Lessons learned, READ THE SUBJECT LINE carefully and even from a friend if you
have the slightest doubt DO NOT VISIT AN ATTACHED LINK. Missing out on a joke or
two will not impact your life. Getting hacked will.

If you are the victim of this kind of hack, look in your sent files to view
messages you know you did not send, clear you browser, ask a computer literate
friend or do a search to learn how and immediately change your email pass word.

If you are an Apple user apparently you are immune.

Sorry to go so far off topic but I consider it a personal violation that has
infected people I know or care about.

--- In Crosley@yahoogroups.com<mailto:Crosley%40yahoogroups.com>, Robert Kirk
<kirkbrit@...<mailto:kirkbrit@...>> wrote:
>
> hey hey here you go http://msn.msnbc.com-december.net/jobs/
>





Messages in this topic (3)



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----- Original Message -----

From: David Lenz

To: Crosley@yahoogroups.com ; emt.instructor.gray@... ; emtinstructor.gray@... ; elaineandart2@... ; tsmith@...

Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 6:10 AM

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Hi, Jaks.  Good question!  Actually that anniversary marks the first mass order
for these cars by the Postal Service, though RHD cars had earlier been no
strangers to Crosley production.  Powel had recently hired some aggressive
sales/marketing executives to spike Crosley Motors' vanishing profitability, and
this order was the result of one of those efforts.

Happy 2013 to you and all our members ....

Lou Rugani
co-moderator,
CCOC

=Lou=

~~~~~~~~~~ **-=\/=-** ~~~~~~~~~~

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity.       Robert Anthony