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...Detroit last week 4,000 Packard dealers and distributors from all over the U. S. assembled for an infusion of inspiration. A barbecue dinner was served in a huge circus tent. President Alvan Macauley announced that Packard sales for the first eight months of 1936 had been 43,459 cars or 70% above a year ago. And on display, along with the Packard Twelve, the Packard Super-Eight, the Packard Eight and the Packard One-Twenty, was a brand new Packard Six with a 115 in. wheelbase priced to retail in the $800 class. This latest and cheapest addition...
While the new Packard was born last week, the old Reo died as a passenger car. After four years of heavy deficits, Reo's President Donald E. Bates announced that henceforth his company would manufacture only Reo trucks and commercial vehicles...
Fifth in volume, first in prestige, is famed Steinway & Sons, now run by three grandsons and three great-grandsons of Founder Henry Engelhard Steinway. Among the Steinways shown this year was its new $885 model, designed to do for the company what the medium-priced Packard 120 has done for Packard motor. Last week in Chicago, Steinway's ace front man, baldish Roman de Majewski, suavely entertained buyers with the champagne that Steinway always serves. Disdaining most of the convention's activity, President Theodore E. Steinway failed to show up for the final banquet...
...Student Council supports Conant on Oath Bill stand. March 20: Conant justifies existence of privately endowed institutions at second Tercentenary Event. Harvard present and future discussed. Sees limitations of tutorial system. Suggests possibility of three year college course. March 26: Miller and Dunn take Wade and Boylston Prizes. Packard named to select 300th speakers...
...Tanked with rye whiskey and honey, he roared through Washington in his Packard roadster looking for her, zigzagging, climbing sidewalks, bumping fenders...