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...spectacular earnings report of Chrysler's tough, chipper K. T. Keller, who, in spite of a 54-day strike in the crucial last quarter, showed a 1939 net of $36,879,829, nearly twice 1938's. The market has been flicking salt on many other excellent 1939 statements, regarding them as eulogies of past business, irrelevant to earnings prospects now. More immediate news from Detroit was not so bullish: production was dropping below 100,000 cars a week, while dealers still had a premature stock of about 400,000 new cars on hand...
...Spinning along a Washington highway this week, Justice McReynolds' car hit a bump, sloughed into a telephone pole guy wire. Unscathed, the Justice gruffed: "I feel quite chipper...
...William Snow Miller looks like General Custer. William Harvey looked like Shakespeare. Otherwise the two anatomists resemble one another astonishingly. A friend of Harvey described him as short, bright-eyed, quick, alert, choleric, often fingering the handle of his dagger. A friend of Dr. Miller describes him as "a chipper, cheerful, deaf little man, almost military in preciseness and persistence; as high-tempered as he is patient and potent; just, exacting, and opinionated...
...positiveness and determination. . . ." Lately a series of airline crashes (TIME, Feb. 22) has brought more hot coals on Gene Vidal's head. Last week, tired and exasperated, he gave in at last, resigned. Said he, keeping his plans secret: "You can quote me as saying I feel very chipper now. And stress...
...That chipper little Irish columnist, Edward Arthur Donald St. George Hamilton Chichester, Marquess of Donegall continued silent in print about the King & Mrs. Simpson but complained in private of the service he is getting from a Milwaukee clipping bureau. It had already littered his house and office with 20,000 different clippings about the King & Mrs. Simpson last week when he canceled his order by cable. Next day the postman brought 6,000 more clippings and Lord Donegall deplored what his curiosity was going to cost...