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Last week, with Cheshire House dormant, Walter Chrysler Jr. announced his debut into the industrial world as chair-man and president of a new sales corporation to market air conditioners. Its name: Temperature Corp. On its board of directors were Mr. Foy and Mr. Garbisch and Motormaker Chrysler's youngest son Jack. The elder Chrysler had put up most of Temperature Corp.'s $350,000 capital...
...shining stars adorn the family diadem of Walter P. Chrysler. Son-in-law Byron Cecil Foy, who married Mr. Chrysler's eldest daughter Thelma, is, at 40, president of Chrysler-owned De Soto Motor Corp., famed sponsor of its airflow models. Son-in-law Edgar William Garbisch, 32, a burly West Point footballer who married Mr. Chrysler's second daughter Bernice, went to work for J. Stirling Getchell, Inc., Manhattan advertising agency which handles most Chrysler advertising, startled himself and friends by bagging the huge Socony-Vacuum account. Last week Motormaker Chrysler's chunky, art-loving son Walter...
Divorced. Grace Hayes, singer; by Charles J. Foy, son of oldtime Comedian Eddie Foy. Reasons: troubles of money, career...
...make cars of General Motors, Chrysler and others "easier riding"; 3) streamlining in a big way-Walter Chrysler's bid to claim the distinction that he made the buggy a bugaboo. A few years ago a 22-year-old graduate of the University of Texas named Byron Cecil Foy began selling Fords in Dallas. Norval A. Hawkins, Ford's salesmanager, was staging a nation-wide sales contest and to everyone's surprise the young Texan won it. Soon he was working directly for Ford. Next he became head of Reo's sales in California. Then...
...will be a production job. But Pierce Arrow, a high priced car, has necessarily a high priced, therefore a largely conservative market. This year will see automobile companies making three kinds of cars, the standard traditional type, the semi-streamline, and the streamline which is the gamble of Chrysler & Foy. Chrysler is not taking this gamble with his big volume makes Plymouth and Dodge, for the results of a failure with them would be too costly. But even with De Soto it is a big enough risk, involving millions in new tools and dies aside from the possible loss...