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...Manhattan on the Fourth of July, 1928, and pretended that he thought the fireworks were in honor of his arrival, he has been a natural for joshing Warner press-agentry. Everyone in Hollywood knows that the first thing he did when he got there was to buy a Packard which he kept bringing back to the shop until a curious mechanic found that he never shifted the gears beyond second. Son of an architect, graduate of Budapest's Royal Academy of Theatre and Art, a famed European director when the Warners tapped him to replace Ernst Lubitsch, Michael Curtiz...
Albert Kahn is a small, merry, 71-year-old architectural genius who spent his youth in a penny-pinching struggle to support an immigrant family of ten (including an impractical Rabbi father). He was 34 when the late Henry B. Joy, president of young Packard Motor Car Co., walked in and asked him to design a factory...
Kahn had never done one, but "would try." Brother Julius Kahn (later president of Truscon Steel, vice president of Republic) had invented an improved type of steel-reinforced concrete. The Packard fac tory became the first reinforced concrete and steel sash factory in the U. S. It also had window area of revolutionary proportions and a layout planned for efficient production. With this pioneering start, Kahn became the industry's No. 1 architect-engineer, has ever since designed most of Ford's, Chrysler's, General Motors' plants...
Early this year the Japanese attempted to give Alcott a physical tossing around. Jap terrorists tried to drag him out of a rickshaw in the American Defense Zone of the International Settlement, but he escaped through an alley. Since then he has used a Packard with bulletproof glass, toted a gun. Busy as a bird dog, Alcott serves as cable editor of the China Press between broadcasts, improvises his scripts from news flashes that come over his desk. Married recently to a White Russian he met in the Settlement, Alcott is thinking of settling down. If the Japs...
...these proposals went into the hopper, Defense activity began to look up. RFC announced it would make 4% loans for Defense construction. Packard, whose directors had tabled the order early in the week (TIME, July 15). announced a "general agreement" on the Rolls-Royce job, considered asking for an RFC loan. Meanwhile the War Department made a deal with Du Pont (which virtually forswore the munitions business after the last war) to operate a projected $30,000,000 smokeless-powder plant at Louisville. First of four such plants to be built and owned by the U. S., it will have...