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...Kaufman Thuma ("K.T.") Keller, 70, will retire April 17 as board chairman of Chrysler Corp. after 30 years of service, half of it as president. In 1950 Keller turned over the operating job to President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert, since then has devoted much of his time to activities such as getting the U.S. guided-missile program off the ground (TIME, Jan. 30). Another change at Chrysler: F. W. Misch, 50, vice president, will move up to corporation finance officer, succeeding Financial Wizard George W. Troost, 53, Chrysler's No. 2 man, who died last week after a brain...
Analysis of the Id. In St. Joseph, Mo., Prisoner Lester Penney asked Jailer Pete Murphy to give him a lie-detector test, explained that he had been drinking for 25 years and "I think I want to stop; my idea is to take the test to see if I'm lying to myself...
Regarding your Dec. 26 review of The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell: throughout the years I've read Emile Gauvreau's and Lester Cohen's Billy Mitchell, Isaac Don Levine's Mitchell: Pioneer of Air Power and others. I do not recall any more than an unsubstantiated rumor that MacArthur voted for acquittal...
...Director Leo Perils of the C.I.O. Community Services Committee; Mrs. Barry Bingham, vice president of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times; Economist Beardsley Ruml; President John Cowles of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune; Pollster George Gallup; Mrs. Bruce Gould, co-editor of the Ladies' Home Journal; Executive Director Lester Granger of the National Urban League; Pundit Walter Lippmann; Mrs. Eugene Meyer of the Washington Post...
...race for the No. 1 spot, Chevrolet turned out 1.8 million cars, edged out Ford by 65,000. But the comeback story of the year in the auto industry was Chrysler. After slumping to 12.9% of the market in 1954, President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert poured $250 million into racy new styling, fired up his dealers to get out and sell the mass market. Result: Chrysler wound up 1955 with 17% of the auto market for its four-car line. In the comeback earnings topped $70 million for the first nine months, 19 times better than...