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...bull market continued to edge up last week, investors kept a sharp eye on the form sheets of second-quarter earnings and hustled to place their money on the winners. Most sparkling performer was Chrysler Corp. President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert reported a 20% jump in net to $44 million in the first six months despite a 10% drop in sales (to $1.3 billion). Chrysler's good showing, said the company, resulted from auto-price increases big enough (15% in a year) to overcome higher taxes (up 220%), and higher unit costs caused by restricted auto output...
...more popularly well-known men in the group is McSpaden, who is now Sales Promotion Director for Palm Beach clothes. He retired from professional golf five years ago after winning some 40 championships. Another well-known figure is James H. Lum, who was Executive Director of the Clinton Laboratory in Oak Ridge from 1945 to '47, Before Oak Ridges he spent four years working in Australia; is now with the Monsonto Chemical Company...
...went well with her for a while-even after the Communists took over the village. But in October she wrote her oldest son, Joe Lum Jang, a San Francisco apartment operator, a frightened letter. She had been arrested by the Communists for the peculiar crime of "mistreating her daughter-in-law." They attempted to make her "confess" by torture, but she refused. Then her face was daubed with paint-the mark of an "unlawful woman"-and she was forced to stand before the village courthouse without food or water. After a day and a night she broke down and paid...
Returning to earth, Joe King's "G-A" at 190 Third Avenue is tops for inexpensive German-American food, thick brew and community singing. Lum Fong has got it if you are looking for real stuff in Chinese food, while Sallo de Champagne, 135 MacDougal St. in the Village offers comfortable couchs to sit and relax on. It has a truly unique atmosphere, and serves terrific wines and champagnes...
...Lester Lum Colbert is a handsome, rugged Texan with a quick smile, a quicker tongue and a big hello for everyone. At 45, he is president of Chrysler Corp., the second largest automaker in the world. He never lets the size of his job bother him. He likes to turn to his pretty blonde wife and drawl: "Angel, can you remember when I've ever been kept awake by worrying?" Angel always shakes her head. Says Tex Colbert: "Business doesn't worry me. It's a downright pleasure...