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...SEMON E. ("Bunky") KNUDSEN, 49, son of late G.M. President William S. Knudsen, and previously vice president and general manager of the Pontiac division, shifted into Cole's job at Chevrolet -one that his father held for nine years...
...ELLIOTT M. ("Pete") ESTES, 45, Pontiac chief engineer since 1956, moved into front-line management by taking over Knudsen's post at Pontiac...
With customary inscrutability, G.M. itself offered no explanation for its moves, so the field was clear for non-G.M. auto executives to guess at their meaning. Most concluded that Cole and Knudsen are now in competition to succeed President John F. Gordon, 61, when Gordon reaches mandatory retirement age in four years...
Nipped by the Snark. Like many another airframe company, Northrop had been started on a shoestring by a self-schooled plane designer, and was in danger of ending on one. A veteran of Douglas and Lockheed, John Knudsen Northrop had designed the Lockheed Vega used by Wiley Post and Amelia Earhart, and in 1939 he set up his own company. World War II made it big-the Northrop-designed P-61 Black Widow gained fame as the first genuine night fighter, and Northrop rolled them out in droves. Peacetime threatened to kill the company...
...When Knudsen resigned to go to Washington just before World War II, Charlie Wilson took over as president of G.M. Under his presidency, General Motors became the greatest cornucopia of war materiel in human history. From its production lines flowed a quarter of the tanks and armored cars, nearly half of the machine guns and carbines, three-quarters of the diesel engines used by the U.S. armed forces during the war. Dwight Eisenhower first encountered Wilson while serving as the Army's Chief of Staff in the postwar years; in 1952, after Ike was elected Pres ident, Wilson...