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...highlight of the season's events comes during the Triangular Debate tryouts. At that time, the two best speeches are awarded the Coolidge Prize. The Council's faculty advisor, Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '40, associate professor of Public Speaking, is always one of the three judges. Becker and ex-president Melvin L. Zurier '50, won the $100 award last season...
Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20, associate professor of Public Speaking, said that purchase of the new machine had been planned when the vocarium in Lamont was built, but the Speech Department "couldn't even afford the tape." The Summer School wanted to record certain conferences held here when it was in session, and the Theatre Collection desired waxings of actors who visited the University, so the three Departments pooled their resources to buy a modern machine that would take down an hour long program...
...Theatre Collection here is now the largest in the country. Packard has acquired recordings of such noted performers as Julia Marlowe, great Shakespearian actress who died Sunday in New York, Edwin Booth, and Dame Ellen Terry. He plans to put many sermons on tape as well as speeches by well known men who appear at the University...
...single acorn. Since the start of the Korean war, there had been a slow pitter-patter of inflation. Prices had risen sharply, followed by wage boosts which threatened still further price hikes. And last week more acorns hit: auto prices started going up again (Hudson, Kaiser-Frazer, Willys, Packard and Nash boosted prices from $10 to $127), and two small steel producers hiked their prices $5-$10 a ton on steel products, a possible forerunner of a general boost in that prime raw material...
...Packard's famed Executive Vice President J. G. Vincent, 70, who designed the first U.S. twelve-cylinder auto engine and was co-designer of World War I's Liberty engine, will retire at year's end. To replace Vincent, directors picked LeRoy Spencer, 57, general manager of Packard's California distributing company and an auto salesman since 1912. Spencer was already regarded as a likely choice for president when & if Hugh Ferry steps out (TIME...