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...working as a lumberjack in Oregon, paid Guy a visit and repeated his favorite philosophy: "If you don't like your job, for heaven's sake quit it since you only live once." Result: Guy took off for a year's work with his brother in lum ber camps along the Columbia River. Woods man Rowe returned to Detroit to finish art school, marry a fellow student, and make a name for himself in the New York community of free-lance artists...
...months almost everyone has known that Chrysler has been having its troubles (TIME, Jan. 25). Last week Board Chairman K. T. Keller and President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert told the worst. In the first half of 1954, they reported, Chrysler sales dropped 42% to $1.1 billion, while earnings dipped 64% to $1.81 a share. Directors forthwith chopped the quarterly dividend rate in half, to 75?. Keller and Colbert indicated that third-quarter results would be no better, due to shutdowns for new model changes...
Sales of passenger cars in 1954, said Chrysler Corp. President Lester Lum Colbert, will reach 5,000,000 "and perhaps several hundred thousand more." Said "Tex" Colbert: "The big overwhelming reason for optimism is that the whole economy is at the beginning of a great era of growth, not at the end . . . Economic progress, once it gets rolling, never finds a place to park and rest...
...felt he was my friend. But the unusual thing about it was that you picked a guy to do the job who read my strip. I've had people from other magazines come up to interview me and say: 'Now about that strip you do-Lum & Abner.' I gradually came to expect that O'Neil would do a fair-maybe even a complimentary-story on me. What I never expected was the really sparkling story that finally came...
...make an investment of this kind unless you have confidence," said Chrysler Corp.'s President Lester Lum Colbert. "Tex" Colbert referred to the money (an estimated $25 million) that he had spent on the 1953 Chrysler line, which was unwrapped last week. Restyled from bumper to bumper, the new eight-cylinder models are priced slightly below 1952, the six cylinders slightly above...