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...selection of Henry Ford papers, which will be placed in the Ford archives in Dearborn, Mich, next spring, was exhibited in Washington. Among them was a letter written in the childish scrawl of his son, the late Edsel Ford, and dated 1901, two years before the first model T went into production: "Dear Santa Claus: I haven't had any Christmas tree in four years and I have broken my trim-ings [sic] and I want some roller skates and I want a book and I can't think of anything else. I want you to think...
...Ford Foundation, with assets of some $500 million bequeathed by Henry Ford and his son Edsel, is the world's biggest private philanthropic enterprise. Its objectives are even bigger: "to reduce [international] tensions" and "to increase maturity of judgment and stability of purpose in the U.S. and abroad." Last week, just before Foundation President Paul Hoffman began a leave of absence to help run the Eisenhower campaign, he reported on the first year's operations...
...running the company, Ford brooked opposition from no one. Once, says Bennett, Edsel, over Ford's objections, decided to build a row of coke ovens. Ford told Bennett: "Harry, as soon as Edsel gets those ovens built I'm going to tear them down." And, says Bennett, Ford...
From this chance meeting, ex-Navy Boxer Harry Bennett became Henry Ford's closest companion for the remainder of the automaker's life, closer even than Ford's only son, Edsel. He was actually running the Ford empire in 1945 when young Henry Ford II stepped...
...Lincoln Continental: the luxury car which Edsel Ford helped design in 1939, and which the company abandoned in 1948 because the model was not making money. The catalogue liked its smooth tight lines, wound up with the ultimate compliment: "The Lincoln Continental satisfies the requirements of connoisseurs...