Q. My wife and I were celebrating our first child when a gentleman came up to our yard as the party was underway and asked about an old wretched Ford pickup that I intended to restore. He said he ...

To outsiders, the venerable typewriter-making firm of Smith-Corona, with steady sales and respectable earnings, appeared to be doing quite well during the mid-50s. Insiders knew better. Other ...

CORTLAND, N.Y. — Smith Corona Corp. will not be heading south after all. The old-line typewriter company, which had filed for bankruptcy in May for the second time in five years, and signed an asset ...