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Died. Baron Ironside (Field Marshal William Edmund Ironside), 79, burly (6 ft. 4 in., 250 Ibs.) British general who won a chestful of decorations in half a century of fighting far and wide for the Empire, commanded a daring but futile expedition (1918-19) against the Bolsheviks at Archangel, served briefly (1939-40) as Chief of the British Imperial General Staff; of a heart attack; in London. Lord Ironside could speak 16 languages, once posed for two years (1900-02) as a Boer in the German army in Southeast Africa, so impressed his Prussian superiors that the young...
Died. Dr. Abraham Flexner, 92, educator who began a lifelong fight for better education by issuing a sensational report (1910) on the condition of U.S. medical schools that caused half of the schools to shut down, the other half to overhaul their curriculums, as a member of the General Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation cajoled multimillions out of wealthy moguls to reorganize American medical education, founded (1930) Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study and persuaded Dr. Einstein to leave Germany to become one of its first members; in Falls Church...
...generation of compact cars. Smaller and simpler than Detroit's chromespun standards, the Corvair is like no other model ever mass-produced in the U.S.; its engine is made of aluminum and cooled by air, and it is mounted in the rear. To Chevrolet's folksy, brilliant General Manager Edward N. Cole, 50, who is as square and compact (195 Ibs., 5 ft. 9 in.) as a Corvair, the new car marks the fulfillment of a 15-year dream; for that long, off and on, he has been trying to produce a rear-engine car. Says Ed Cole...
...This Is It." Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the Corvair is the way Cole designed it and sold the idea to General Motors. He put the Corvair wheels in motion way back in 1952, a most unlikely time. Detroit then was riding a crest of chrome, and it looked as if anyone who bucked the trend to bigness would get honked right out of the industry. Henry Kaiser's chromeless little Henry J. was a flop. Romney's Ramblers were losing money. Just a few years before, Chevy had started to tool for a compact model...
...lick the biggest problem: winning approval from G.M.'s top management. In July of 1956, Ed Cole got a much freer rein to press the project: Chevy Boss Tom Keating moved up to head all G.M. passenger-car divisions, and Ed Cole replaced him as the Chevrolet general manager, became a G.M. vice president...