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...preliminary winnowing was supervised by Theodore Spencer '28, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory and director of the contest, and Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20, associate professor of Public Speaking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ten Orators Selected for Boylston Speaking Contest | 3/11/1948 | See Source »

...Brown Envelope. When Joe got the check, he said, Nelson picked him up in his Packard and dropped him at the bank. Joe drew out the money, met Nelson in the Hotel La Salle lobby. They had a drink, then got into Nelson's car. Joe said that Nelson then took a brown envelope out of his pocket and told him to put the money in it. A few days later Nelson summoned Joe to pose with Governor Dwight Green for newsreel pictures. Said Joe: "I didn't shave and didn't wear a necktie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Rags & Riches | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

North Carolina's Governor Robert Gregg Cherry had automobile trouble. His stately, plump black Packard was one of the first cars to be examined under the state's new compulsory-inspection law. It flunked. Faulty lights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Statecraft | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...success but is the only unshifting goal in a baffling world. Millions who live unscarred through the jalopy or adolescent stage of life toil for decades to progress from Ford to Pontiac, from Pontiac to Buick, and cannot die happy unless guaranteed delivery to the grave in a Packard or Cadillac hearse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Last Traffic Jam | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...Packard pointed to the mid-western colleges, a sharp contrast to this situation, where departments of five or six men are often employed to teach public speaking and liberal grants are given to debating societies with which to hire coaches or pay the professors for their coaching time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Packard Hits Forensic Lack In University | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

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