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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Buick has jolted along a rough road in the last few years. After banner 1955, when it sold 737,879 cars and held third place, Buick skidded steadily to 263,890 sales and fifth place last year. Trying desperately to arrest this slump, Buick Boss Edward Tillottson Ragsdale, 61, radically remodeled the 1959 Buick. But in this year's first quarter, when all other General Motors models rode up, Buick sunk to seventh place as sales slipped another 11%, and its market share dipped from...
...American choral composers today, Professor Randall Thompson '20 certainly ranks among the most popular. His Alleluia, written in 1940, and The Last Words of David (1949) have together sold about two million copies. Thompson's fame is not limited to America; his works are performed all over the world. He has just been asked by a group in Seoul if they may substitute the names of Korean holidays for the corresponding American dates in his Testament of Freedom when they perform it later this year. And Thompson is being asked for new works all the time. His future plans include...
...brother, Jim Knight, has played a secondary role. It was the elder (by 15 years) brother Jack who took full charge of the Akron Beacon Journal in 1933 on the death of their father, and led the expansion into four other cities. It was Jack Knight, too, who sold the prosperous Chicago Daily News three months ago to Marshall Field Jr. (TIME, Jan. 19). "All I wanted to do," Jack said then to those who speculated on the imminent dismemberment of the chain, "was relax a little, and give a little bit more to Jim." Last week James Landon Knight...
...sale puts American Airlines a big jump ahead of its competitors in disposing of its piston fleet (now more than half sold); it also makes Fred Ayer, president and sole owner of his firm, easily the world's biggest aircraft dealer, puts him in a commanding position to cash in on the used-plane market. Since September, he has bought 80 big planes (47 DC-6s, 33 Convairs) from jet-converting U.S. airlines. He has sold or leased ten of the eleven Convairs that have already been delivered, has buyers from small airlines or corporations for 40 more planes...
...bypass preliminary trainers and begin fledgling flyers in North American AT-6s (advanced trainers). When other countries followed the U.S., a shortage developed, since North American had stopped making the planes. Ayer scoured the world for the ATs (he found 15 on an abandoned British airstrip in Southern Rhodesia), sold 252. plus another 380 small planes. Last year he broke into the big-plane market with the purchase of 24 Convair 2405 from American Airlines...