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Icebreaker. With a proud blare of horns, Packard Motor Car Co. last week drove out its new cars, thus became the first motormaker to put 1948 models on the market. The new models were radically different from the '47; gone was the distinctive Packard hood, the company's trademark for more than 40 years. Packards now have rounded hoods and wide, square bodies, forecast by the '48 convertible model put out last spring. Although some models, which range in price from $2,125 to $4,668, will cost more than their predecessors, two of them will...
Henry J. Kaiser's Permanente Metals Corp., with the usual blare of trumpets that accompanies any move of the Kaiser enterprises, lowered the price of sheet aluminum to 21$ a lb., "approximately 15% below anything ever produced for sheet metal fabricators." The same day, the Reynolds Metals Co., whose president, Richard S. Reynolds, got into aluminum by making foil wrappers for his uncle's tobacco products, announced price reductions averaging 20% on aluminum building materials, such as shingles, clapboard siding, roofing and ceiling panels. Only the Aluminum Co. of America, which had the aluminum business to itself before...
...uniforms fire slingshots at passersby. When Vienna's bluish-green dusk settles over the square and forms a backdrop for the lighted clock in the Rathaus tower, and the lilac smells especially sweet, a few moments of real peace descend. Then the Russians turn on their loudspeakers, which blare hit tunes...
...With a blare of trumpets, CBS publicists this week introduced radio's latest Boy Wonder. Pale, thinly handsome Fletcher Markle, 26, is writer-producer-director of Studio One, a bright, new, hour-long dramatic series on one of radio's choicest spots (Tuesdays...
...last week it was the Fourth of July; Winant and the girl clerks were gone; and Prince's Gate rang again with the tinkle of party glasses and the blare of a dance band. G.I.s had come with their girls-a few clerks; a few debutantes, and many a "five-shilling touch" from Piccadilly in full war paint. Hedda Hopper of Hollywood was there (in one of her hats). So were Wellington Koo, Sir John (now Viscount) Simon, Lord & Lady Mountbatten and General Spaatz. With cautious restraint, Clement and Mrs. Attlee sipped gin and lemon. Herbert Morrison wandered pixy...