Word: nash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edwin C. Kemble, professor of Physics, will "christen" the $800,000 building he helped to plan, when he gives his lecture in Natural Sciences 2. "Principles of Physical Science," at 12 noon, Monday. Leonard K Nash '29, assistant professor of Chemistry, thus yields precedence to kemble by holding his 9 a.m. Monday Natural Sciences 4 lecture in Byerly Hall and not moving to Burr until Wednesday...
During the last four weeks, American automobile makers have been unveiling their new models with all the calculated coyness of a middle-aged stripper. By last Friday when Nash 'came out,' the lineup was complete, if dull. There had been some artful padding and plastering of gaudy makeup, but for most manufacturers the changes weren't even skin deep...
Other independents fumbled around with their styling and interiors; technical improvements were either minor or non-existent. Kaiser for example changed hood ornaments and tacked a chrome-plated tire case on the rear. Studebaker dropped its needle-nose, and Nash swapped its bathtub body for one designd by Italy's Pinin Farina that couldn't help being an improvement...
...Nash's new look came from a new designer, Italy's Pinin Farina, who has made his name as a high-priced custom builder of auto bodies for Indian rajas, Persian shahs, etc. All such cars, no matter whether the chassis are Rolls-Royces, Alfa-Romeos, Fiats, etc., are usually known as "Farinas." Pudgy, nervous Designer Farina, who has 650 workers in his Turin plant, always looks as if he had just crawled out from under a car (as he usually has). Unlike most auto designers, who work with clay mockups, Farina works with sheet aluminum, which...
Besides the new Nash sedans, Farina has also sleeked up the racing-type Nash-Healey sport roadster which Nash brought out last year. This year Nash will make 200 to sell at slightly more than last year...