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...agents (i.e., personal representatives). Eventually, Kierdorf gave his own explanation of his burns. He was home alone in Flint, he said, when two workmen appeared, invited him to a secret organizing meeting. At their plea for haste, he tossed bathrobe over T shirt and trousers, climbed into their old Packard. Outside Pontiac, 40 miles away, his hosts stuck a gun at his neck, doused him with fluid and lit a match. Then they dumped him at the hospital...
Last week, at 61, Sonnabend prepared to take on the biggest matchmaking job of his career. At ailing Studebaker-Packard's request, he was ready to move into the company, find profitable nonautomotive companies to merge with it to take advantage of Studebaker's $135 million in tax losses. For Studebaker a merger is a matter of desperate urgency. Down to less than 1% of the auto market this year (from 2.4% in 1954), the company hopes to make a comeback this fall with a new small car, priced under $2,000. But to keep going, Studebaker must...
STUDEBAKER-PACKARD reportedly will drop Packard from production because slow sales held output in past six months to mere 1,546 cars. It is expected to concentrate on small cars that will be low-powered (starting at 92 h.p.) and 3 ft. shorter than Ford, Chevy or Plymouth...
...drivers own antique or classic cars, and their number is growing fast. The Horseless Carriage Club, for owners of cars produced prior to 1916, has jumped from 350 members in 1944 to 7,500 today. The Classic Car Club, for owners of fancy cars of 1925-42 vintage (mostly Packard Eights and Twelves), counts 1,700 members, will add 300 this year. The aged-auto fad has claimed many VIPs. Among them: Dwight Eisenhower, who used to enjoy relaxing in his mother-in-law's high, stubby 1914 Rauch & Lang Electric until it was sent to the Eisenhower Museum...
Died. Alvan Tufts Fuller, 80, onetime (1925-29) Republican governor of Massachusetts, who backed up the state judiciary, decided not to delay the electrocution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti beyond Aug. 23, 1927; in Boston. A wealthy auto dealer (Packard) and onetime (1917-21) U.S. Congressman, Fuller was beset by pressure from near and far to intervene in behalf of the condemned men. After he appointed a committee headed by Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell, which reviewed all testimony and supported the jury's decision that Sacco and Vanzetti were guilty of murder, the New York Times editorialized...