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...Exner, anti-fluoridation strategist, lecturer and pamphleteer...
After reading the nonsense surrounding Messrs. Walker, Exner and Earl's activities, I thank providence for such small favors as the Volkswagen...
...high-topped, old-fashioned cars: "There are parts of this country, containing millions of people, where both the men and the ladies are in the habit of getting behind the wheel, or on the back seat wearing hats . . ." Not until 1952, when President L. L. Colbert made Virgil Exner, who had worked under Raymond Loewy styling the new eye-catching, postwar Studebaker, director of styling, did styling come into its own at Chrysler. Ford also cared so little for style that it let its out side bodybuilders design the new models, except for the Lincoln Zephyr and the famed Continental...
...Virgil M. Exner, 47, Chrysler's ace designer, got a fitting reward for the long, low, jet-finned 1957 models that won back the company's traditional 20% share of the auto market this year: a corporate vice-presidency, giving Exner the same high rank as his competitors, General Motors' Styling Director Harley Earl and Ford's George Walker...
When the time came for the unveiling last October, Virgil Exner was not there; he was down with a serious heart attack. Last week he was at work on Chrysler's 1960 models, which will contain the company's next basic styling change. What will they look like? Says Exner: shorter and lower. "We feel that cars have gotten just about as long as they need to be in the foreseeable future, and with cars lower they can become shorter without losing the low, long look." As for public acceptance of the swoops and darts, grins Exner...