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Frederick C. Packard Jr., associate professor of Public Speaking, will officiate. Judges are Emerson College President Justin McKinley, State Senator Charles Innes, and the Reverend Duncan Howlett of the First Church, Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Finalists to Compete For Speech Awards In Recitation Contest | 3/21/1957 | See Source »

...whom Humbert dubs Lolita, lurks in the eye of the beholder, for she is a Coke-fed, juke-box-operated brat with a headful of movie mags for a brain. To stay close to her, Humbert marries her widowed mother and is ready to murder mamma when a passing Packard does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pnin & Pan | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...Riley ("It's the most marvelous green color and the wheels aren't square"), thinks the 1957 cars are "ludicrous" ("Why, you can't even get into the things"). His idea of what a car should be: a cross between a French Bugatti and the 1914 Packard he grew up in. One is beautifully disciplined; the other, "once you "got in you could walk around in it." Asks Osborn: "Why is it, when Detroit can produce an engine as fine as they do, that esthetically their taste, design and judgment aren't worth a damn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Spearing the Whales | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

...PACKARD CLIPPER, out this week in two body styles, will have supercharged 275-h.p. Studebaker engine and automatic transmission as standard equipment. First Packard station wagon since 1950 is listed at $3,093, and four-door sedan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jan. 28, 1957 | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

Enter the professors. William C. Green (M.I.T.): "I just think it's a damn good long vaudeville skit." Frederick Packard (Harvard): "I don't think it's a great play. Maybe it's not even a play. But it's very good theatre. . . .It certainly is not Pollyanna-ish; and I suspect that the play's appeal to people twenty-five years old or under is due to the fact that youth has a tendency to prefer the disagreeable." Marston Balch (Tufts) said that "the play is clearly allegorical: Godot is one's goal, and everyone has his own individual...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: The Enigma of 'Godot' | 1/17/1957 | See Source »

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