Word: colbert
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...last week, smilingly posed beside brand-new 1961 models for pictures to be used when the cars go on sale in September and October. Elected president only nine weeks ago, he talked enthusiastically of plans for Chrysler's coming year. Two days later Chrysler Chairman Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert called an emergency meeting of Chrysler's board of directors in Manhattan, and he and Newberg flew there from Detroit in two company planes. At the meeting, to the shocked surprise of Detroit insiders and outsiders alike, Newberg resigned...
...Motors' future as well as the price of its stock, which is now about 30% below its 1959 high. Said he: "They are not only completely untrue but unfair to everyone who has a stake in our plans for continued growth." Added Chrysler Board Chairman Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert emphatically: "There is absolutely no truth to such a report...
...craft of storytelling. One of his favorite games is called "openers" and consists of inventing bizarre movie situations. Quite a few of them reach the screen. One of his most famous openers, eventually used in Bluebeard's Eighth Wife: a man (Gary Cooper) and a girl (Claudette Colbert) meet at a d'epartment store counter because she tries to buy only the pants of a pair of pajamas and he only the top. One of Wilder's current and so far unused openers : the Russians kidnap a famous American actress, who might be Marilyn Monroe, in West...
...JUNE COLBERT LANE...
...meeting was probably the last that Tex Colbert, 54, would preside over as president and chief executive. Chrysler is about ready to change its top management, move Colbert up to board chairman, and name Executive Vice President William C. Newberg, 49, as boss. The shift has been in the works for months, and is not the result of last week's criticism at the annual meeting. Newberg is the man who succeeded Colbert at Dodge in 1951. has been groomed for the presidency for two years. And after ten years of fighting Chrysler's battles. Tex Colbert himself...