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When the Chrysler Corp. delegated Lester Lum Colbert to negotiate a new wage agreement with the U.A.W.-C.I.O. last August, Detroit's automen gossiped that he was being groomed for the presidency (TIME, Sept. 4). Last week, Chrysler directors made it official. President K. T. Keller, nudging the retirement age of 65 and busy three days a week with his new job as director of the Defense Department's guided missile program, moved up to board chairman-a post vacant since Walter P. Chrysler's death in 1940. Into the presidency went "Tex" Colbert, 45, boss...
Returning to earth, Joe King's "G.A" at 190 Third Avenue is tops for inexpensive German-American food, thick brew in thicker glasses, and community singing. Lum Fong, of all things, specializes in Chinese food rocking with authenticity...
When she could get it, Betty's mother, Mabel Lum Thornburg, took daytime work on the assembly lines in automobile factories at 22? an hour. For a time, after she and the children had begun to share a Detroit basement flat with two other families, she worked as a "tackspitter," tacking upholstery into car seats. She would come home at night "with nails in her fingers where she'd missed." Says Betty grimly: "I made up my mind then that no one-no one-would keep us like that...
...Lum and Abner (Wed. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Back for the fall season...
...Lum and Abner (Sat. 7 p.m., CBS). Back for the fall season...