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...streets, being delivered to dealers (see cut). Ford said the new Mercury will be "totally new from road to roof," with 61% more glass space than the poor-selling '585. To make the overhaul complete, Ford's Mercury-Edsel-Lincoln Boss James J. Nance, onetime head of Hotpoint and Studebaker-Packard, resigned under pressure after eight months as division chief. Under Nance, production skidded to 110,644 cars this year from 264,439 at the same time last year. Nance was replaced by his assistant, Vice President Ben D. Mills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Confidence in Cars | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...says "the salesman wins the blonde to wife by promising her a stove that plays Tenderly when the steak is done. And Jayne Mansfield looks dumb enough to believe him." Please tell your Cinema reviewer that I am blonde and a little dumb but I know that the 1957 Hotpoint range plays Tenderly when the roast is done. What's more, my husband has sold quite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 8, 1957 | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

...TIME never doubted Hotpoint's ability to play it cool, thought the salesman would cool off before the blonde heard the tune. Tenderly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 8, 1957 | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

Both Ad Manager Rinker and his boss, Sales Manager Murray, were summarily fired when the case broke. Fumed G.E.'s Garl Schlaick, general manager of the company's Hotpoint appliance sales division: "General Electric will not, now or ever, condone or tolerate such conduct." The 16 carloads? They have already been delivered and sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: How to Create Good Will | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...president of the new combine, in stepped able James J. (for John) Nance, 53, the automaker who pulled Packard out of the rut two years ago. Coming to Packard from General Electric's Hotpoint division (TIME, May 19, 1952), Nance found a company suffering from old age. Packard's plants were among the mustiest and least efficient in the industry; its sales organization was without drive or direction; its executives were aging and set in their ways. The company made money, but largely because of defense production and the happy fact that 1952 was still a seller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: And Then There Were None | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

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