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Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20, associate professor of Public Speaking, announced yesterday the dates for this year's competition for the Boylston Prizes for Elocution...
...Berman will get a crack at the top men in the Knights of Columbus meet early in January, while Grutzner will enter the B.A.A. 600 two weeks later. Mikkola's suocint comment of their chances is "they both can win." These two standouts are backed by John Packard, Tom McGrath, Phil Meyers, last year's freshman captain Paul Sheats, and Guido Perera. Any one of these five is a potential scorer...
...start of the race, Jose Estrada, a prosperous Mexico City auto dealer and a veteran racer, announced: "I will win, or die trying." On the first lap, his 1951 Packard screeched off the road and tumbled 630 feet down into a ravine. Both Estrada and Co-Driver Miguel González died in a Oaxaca hospital that afternoon. Next day Carlos Panini, wealthy Italian-born founder of Mexico's first scheduled airline (Aerovias Panini), was killed when his Alfa Romeo skidded into a field and turned over...
...Admiral Corp.. now recovering from the deep slump in TV7 sales, reported profits down 75% to $1,300,000-without providing for the new tax. ¶ Packard, benefiting from a 35% rise in sales, pulled up from a $1,400,000 loss to a $4,900,000 nine-month net. CJ The Texas Co. netted $45.5 million v. $40.6 million in the 1950 period. ¶ Standard OilCo. (N.J.), reporting for the first nine months, netted $403 million, up 47% from 1950 for a new record...
...captain-he's drunker than I am") and hit big-time vaudeville in one jump. His first wife, a beautiful ex-burlesque soubrette named Mercedes Delpino, was his straight woman. LAHR AND MERCEDES, read big newspaper ads, A RIOT OF MIRTH AND IRRESISTIBLE COMEDY. He bought a Packard car and tailored suits, and dreamed of Broadway. "Bert," said the Broadway wise guys, "you're too burlesquey." But in 1927 he got his break. An ex-vaudevillian named Harry Delmar put a revue on Broadway, and asked Lahr to bring his cop act in. Delmar's Revels...