Alan Leamy

GORDON BUEHRIG CAN RIGHTLY

be acknowledged as the designer behind the “coffin-nose” Cords of 1936-’37, but he was preceded by an equally capable designer who unfortunately died quite young, before he could build the kind of reputation that would follow men like Buehrig, Harley Earl, Virgil Exner, Bob Gregorie, and Brooks Stevens. That man was Alan Leamy.

Leamy was born in Arlington, Maryland, a neighborhood of Baltimore, June 4, 1902. In 1905, the family moved to Columbus,