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Champion & Limousine. If the merger goes through, it will be the third for the auto industry in a little more than a year (the others: Kaiser-Willys, Nash-Hud-son). But it is a necessary step and a shrewd move for both. The two independents have steadily lost ground in 1954's red-hot auto race. Packard sales are down 53%, Studebaker's 55%; both lost money in the first quarter-$6,000,000 for Studebaker and $380,000 for Packard. By joining forces, they can put together a sales organization of some 3,900 dealers across...
Berton B. Subrin, Akron, Government; Walter J. Kaiser, Bellevue, History and Literature; William P. Travis, Cleveland Heights, History; Bernard L. Busfield, Jr., Lakewood, Biology; Theodore L. Kesselman, Youngstown, Government...
...cutting back production or lowering prices. For one thing, the Justice Department is already looking into the auto industry, worried because Ford and G.M. have gobbled up 83% of the auto market in their production race. Any price cut would only hurt such staggering independents as Studebaker, Hudson and Kaiser even more, and bring antitrust agents to Detroit at a dead...
Died. Poultney Bigelow, 98, wealthy, globetrotting author-journalist; after long illness; in Saugerties, N.Y. A lifelong crony of Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II, Author Bigelow was easily quoted on dictatorship, boating, war and nudism ("To go naked is wholesome, especially for nervous women"), once urged the U.S. to make F.D.R. President for life, and before Pearl Harbor, predicted Axis victory in World...
...takes first place by default in the short story class. In The Great Rake, Allen Grossman manipulates six words, cities, turn threat, casement, grass, world, into a poetic whole which is the best piece of creative work in the issue. As for the other poetry, two pieces by Walter Kaiser, from the Garrison Prize Poems, reveal a fine sense of imagery and a fluid style. Winifred Hare has written a sonnet...