Word: townsend
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Whipped on by the dynamic leadership of President Lynn Townsend, Chrysler's sales are up 16.6%. Studebaker is out of the picture, and American Motors, caught short by the public's swing away from its compact cars, is off 12%. But it is Ford that is making the biggest splash of all in the area that counts most: share of the auto market. Ford's first-quarter sales are up an impressive 12%, and its market penetration, as Detroit terms it, is gaining in a rapidly expanding market after several years of decline. So far this year...
Died. John Gillis Townsend, 92, Delaware's Mr. Republican, Governor (1917-21), U.S. Senator (1929-41), and a delegate to every G.O.P. National Convention but one between 1904 and 1960, a multimillionaire real estate man and farmer who rejoiced in his title as the state's "Strawberry King" while pushing through as Governor a program, then considered "dangerously liberal," of workmen's compensation, vocational education, state income taxes; of pneumonia; in Philadelphia...
...enough, choreographer Bob Walsh and twelve dancers capped the evening with an eye-filling jazz ballet of Richard Rodgers' Slaughter on Tenth Avenue. The audience's attention stayed riveted from the moment that Nancy Tobey, as The Stripper, began to take off her clothes. The lovers (Walsh and Linda Townsend), various thugs and madams (Mark Cohen, John Kronenberger, Jane Greengold), and a slew of undergraduate cops and whores helped make the production a highly entertaining...
...Townsend took the 200-yard individual medley in 2:04.7, and Princeton's Jed Graef captured the 200-yard backstroke...
...general manager of Chrysler Corp.'s Chrysler-Plymouth division, Philip N. Buckminster, 47, runs a bigger operation than the chief executive of many a major company. Buckminster is considered one of the fastest-rising automen in Detroit, has become the favorite troubleshooter of Chrysler President Lynn Townsend. Under Buckminster, the Chrysler-Plymouth Division is readying a racy new sports car, the Barracuda, for Spring introduction; last week the division raised its prestige with a 1-2-3 upset victory for Plymouth over Ford in the Daytona 500 stock car race. Trained as a financial analyst at Ford under Robert...