Word: buffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...division's product planner. An assistant professor in metallurgy at the University of Michigan before he joined Ford in 1951, Frey is Detroit's most uncommon auto executive, a sort of thinking man's automaker. He speaks Russian and French, is an opera and archaeology buff, reads such publications as Red China's English-language Peking Review and the London Times's Literary Supplement along with his engineering journals. Though he has a doctorate in metallurgical engineering, his chief contributions to Ford have been as an idea...
...Wagnerian concept of total art led them to stud their frames with marble, onyx and semiprecious lapidary and to incise their names in five-inch letters. Among nearly 2,000 lesser art works are monumental glorifications of the autobahns, tiers of titillating, bulky Brünnhildes in the buff, and pleasant vistas of Berchtesgaden. One canvas, called Judgment of Paris, shows three hefty maidens placidly awaiting the award of the golden apple from Paris, who is a lad dressed in a Hitler Youth uniform...
...Please take a memo to L.B.J.: "Suggest you draft Buff Chandler for your poverty program...
...Cheers to Mrs. Buff Chandler and the Music Center. Cheers to Los Angeles, the culture capital of the West...
Person to Person. But Buff's main fund-raising gimmick is no gimmick at all; it is to be intensely personal with the extremely rich. As one practiced professional put it: "Let's face it. Important money is raised by important people asking other important people for important amounts. Asking 2,000,000 people for a dollar each won't get you $2,000,000; it won't even get you $1,000,000. You need very, very big gifts from very few people." During the Music Center campaign, Buff kept constantly before her a list...