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Frederick C. Packard '20, associate professor of Public Speaking, it seems, was only momentarily nonplussed by the throng of more than two score Harvard and Radcliffe representatives that crowded his Germanic Museum studio yesterday for the first meeting of his course in Dramatic Interpretation...
...what! Encased in his now rather shoddy seersucker jacket, with a Chesterfield protruding not at all jauntily from his mouth, he waited while a man in a double-breasted suit walked onto the field. Today, of all things foolish, they were going to raffle off a '47 Packard, and what was more silly, he was waiting around on the hope that he would win it. Of course he never won anything, and there were great wads of textbooks waiting for him back in his room. Still he waited, and struck up a conversation with the girl sitting next...
...Life. Madrid today is a bright, booming city, American in its neon-lit vivacity. The streets are choked with double-decker buses, sleek, new blue trolleys and shining U.S. cars. One foreign diplomat lamented: "I managed to get a Packard, but nothing less than the biggest Cadillac makes anyone here turn his head." Bull rings are jammed; top Matador Manolete can pull down the official equivalent of $12,500 for an afternoon's work. The number of prostitutes has hit an alltime high...
...year), is an ex-newsboy, disciple and brother-in-law of the late Max Annenberg. He is the only executive who can stop the presses (with a buzzer that blows a siren in the press room). "Louie" Rose cruises his newsstands at night in a new, $5,000 Packard. His boss bought it, found the roof too low for the high McCormick head, told Rose: "If you like it I'll give it to you." Rose liked...
Higher. The Packard Motor Car Co. boosted auto prices from $75 to $224 a car. Reason: pinched by material shortages, Packard lost $1,148,172 during the first quarter of the year, saw no hope of increasing production enough in the near future to put it into the black without a price rise...