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Soragna stepped into his black Packard, rode to the Quai d'Orsay and through the iron gates to the French Foreign Ministry. The diplomats of the victorious Allies were assembled there in the graceful old Salon de 1'Horloge, with its five big windows overlooking the murky Seine, where in 1856 the Crimean War had come to an end, where Clemenceau had ratified the Treaty of Versailles, and where the Kellogg-Briand pact to outlaw war had been signed...
Sirs: . . . "Bright and early one day last week a black Packard limousine with a U. S. crest on the door hummed through the maddening boulevard traffic of central Buenos Aires. As it passed, police snapped respectfully to attention" [TIME, Dec. 2]. . . . Now that's something I'd like to witness! I've often watched local policemen salute courteously, politely or sympathetically many cars official and otherwise, but I yet have to see a local cop or for that matter anyone in this country, in Latin American countries or any country in the world...
...Meyer Berger found George Teese, a New York Central engineer who owns a 1937 Packard, at home in Harmon on Hudson, N. Y.: "George and his wife, Rita, have a centrally heated, spotless, well-furnished six-room apartment. The Teeses don't save much . . . with prices as they are, but they live well ... a roast every day since the meat shortage ended. This year George has averaged about $600 a month. 'It's a strain, usually 16 hours a day, but a man would be a fool or a loafer not to get it while...
U.A.W. negotiations were already under way with Chrysler, Packard, Kaiser-Frazer and Hudson. United Electrical Workers will begin their fight with Westinghouse and General Electric on Jan. 4. Phil Murray's Steelworkers bargain next month to replace a contract expiring...
Some ads (like Wheaties') are good for a laugh, some (like Packard's) are good for a sigh, and some (like Listerine's) for a shiver of apprehension, but very few are good just to look at. Among those few are the ads dreamed up by youthful designer Paul Rand. Rand packed 102 of his best jobs (plus a few stilted pages of art philosophizing) into Thoughts on Design, published last week (Wittenborn...