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...Albert Kahn (60), mustached, bespectacled, came 48 years ago, not from Russia, but from Germany. He built the Ford plants, the Packard plant, the Hudson plant. He received the silver medal of the Architectural League for Detroit's Fisher buildings. He belongs to six golf clubs, but has never played golf. With his wife, he sailed for Europe last week, to visit, not Russia, but "a nice warm place" to stay a few weeks. In Europe he will visit cathedrals, sketch, have a holiday, come home...
Cadillac ($3,195) Packard ($2,375) Cord ($3,095) Pierce-Arrow Cunningham ($7,500) ($2,875) DuPont ($3,000 delivered ) Ruxton ($4,500 delivered) Franklin ($2,160) Stearns-Knight La Salle ($2,335) ($5,000) Lincoln ($4,200) Stutz...
Cadillac. Bidding strongly for logo's luxury trade was a new model by Cadillac. Autophiles who once gloated over Packard's mighty "Twin Six" gathered around the enclosure which contained the new Cadillac engine, regally mounted. Composed of two blocks of eight cylinders (each with carburetor) set at an angle of 45° instead of the usual 90° for a V-type, the engine will develop from 165 to 185 h. p., send the V16 gliding along with electric smoothness. Ready in April, the V16 will sell from...
...front drive cars which stand barely five feet high. Some models of the Willys-Knight are painted partly to resemble Scotch plaid; radiator caps are lower, some being merely dummies. One dummy cap is fashioned like a gunsight, perhaps to perfect the driver's aim. Some cars (Franklin, Packard, Graham) have abandoned ventilating slits in the hood and substituted small doors. The Pierce-Arrow, tenaciously traditional, retains its headlights on the fenders...
Editor George Martin of Farm & Fireside, aged 40, is following Editor Merle Crowell into recuperative vacation. Editor of The Country Home will be Thomas Cathcart, 34, onetime Packard Motor Co. promotioneer, for many years editorial assistant in Crowell...