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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grosjean first became interested in Corsica while studying at the Sorbonne and the Collége de France (among his teachers: Abbé Henri Breuil, the "pope" of prehistory). When he began prospecting for a dig of his own, he remembered that Corsica's prehistoric art had been written off as "very crudely sculpted" while Sardinia, only seven miles away, had yielded a rich crop of 7,000 monuments...
Chamberlain Jr. Coll...
...when Harsen Smith, beset by family disagreements, sold out for $40 million to NAFI Corp., a Wall Street-run venture company controlled by famed Yachtsman Cornelius Shields. 66. and his investment banker brother Paul. To replace Smith as chief executive officer, the Shieldses installed bluff, chunky President Harry Coll, 52. who had been with Chris-Craft since 1939. Even before the Shields brothers took over. Coll had sent his close friend. Sales Vice President Charles R. Burgess, 51. off to survey the company's dealer organization. "Time and again,'' recalls Burgess. ;a dealer would tell...
Pile & Picture Windows. Given a free hand by the Shields brothers. Coll himself took a pencil to Chris-Craft's blueprints. A mechanical engineer with a flair for design, he slimmed the bulging bow line, streamlined the superstructure to give the boats a racier silhouette. To please lady sailors, he installed molded fiber-glass vanities and washbowls in the heads, put pile carpets in the cabins, and picture windows in the galleys. As a result of the new look, Chris-Craft is once again, according to Coll, "at least two years in front of its competitors-and I intend...
Sails on the Horizon. Though the U.S. boating industry is currently in the throes of a major shakeout-sales this year are 25% below the 1960 level-Chris-Craft is faring relatively well. Coll expects that sales for the fiscal year ending Aug. 31 will reach $43 million, a decline of 8% from the previous year. Chris-Craft has opened a sales subsidiary in Lausanne. Switzerland. With its exports to Europe running 56% ahead of last year's, the company plans to set up its own European factory, possibly in Italy...