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Packard's president is Alvan Macauley, a courteous cultured gentleman of 62 who heads the Industry's trade association. He likes to whittle period furniture and part models in his basement workshop, likes skeet shooting, likes to read in his bath. He is also a smart salesman who learned his trade under the late great John Patterson of National Cash Register. Months before the Show he began to hint broadly at a new low-priced edition of Packard's swank eights, super-eights and twin-sixes-but he kept his public guessing. Packard had dipped into...
Last week Mr. Macauley capped his word-of-mouth build-up by unveiling a brand new Model 120 with a straight-eight motor, the famed Packard lines and all the latest gadgets. Price: $980 to $1,095 F. O. B. Most noteworthy innovation was the independent front wheel assembly. Packard used exposed coil springs but added torque arms to assure wheel alignment...
Died. Charles Raymond Macauley, 63, newspaper cartoonist; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. In 40 years of cartooning for many a newspaper including the New York World and the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Macauley popularized Theodore Roosevelt's "Big Stick," won a $500 Pulitzer Prize (1929) for "Paying For a Dead Horse"-a drawing of a dead horse, a rider staggering under a burden labeled "Reparations...
...conferred one day with the manufacturers headed by Alfred P. Sloan. Alvan Macauley, Walter P. Chrysler. Charles W. Nash, Roy D. Chapin. Next day he conferred with A. F. of L. men led by President William Green and William Collins, organizer for the industry. Then for three days General Johnson shuttled from one group to the other trying to arrange a settlement. At the end of the first day General Johnson held up his thumb and forefinger with only a hypothetical peanut between and reported, ''They are just that far apart." At the end of the second...
Said Alvan Macauley (Packard), president of the Automobile Chamber of Commerce: "We are very grateful to the President and to General Johnson...