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Bendix Home Appliances Inc., which revolutionized the washing-machine industry eleven years ago with its automatic home washer, was all ready last week to do it again. As a starter, it cut prices 7%, the first postwar reductions by a major producer in the automatic-washer field. Then it announced that it had bought Cleveland's H. J. Rand Washing Machine Corp., along with the rights to a "radically different" machine, which it hopes to put on the market next fall. With price cuts and new machine, Bendix hopes to fend off the score of new washers which have...
...tried to get his competitors into a joint public-relations campaign to straighten out such misconceptions, but they refused. So five years ago he started his one-man campaign. In newspaper ads, he plugged the theme that "America's Fifth Freedom Is Free Enterprise," with cartoons and folksy parables discussing profits and wage rate-production relationships. Taylor tried the same trick with his annual reports, now thinks that in television he has found the best method...
Kings Row, a bestseller of eight years ago, was an oversized and overwritten but doggedly sympathetic effort to see through the front doors and store clothes of a whole Midwestern horse-&-buggy town. When Author Henry Bellamann died in 1945, he was working on the second book of what he had planned as a trilogy. Finished by his wife Katherine, Parris Mitchell of Kings Row (the Literary Guild selection for May) carries the story through World War I, continues with unimaginative tolerance a chronicle of everyday good & evil that readers of the first book will welcome as they would...
This is the best performance in the East since Steve Seymour moved from Philadelphia to California two years ago. It made most of the shirt-sleeved crowd of 500 forget that the Crimson was flatironing Holy Cross and Boston University...
Ever since the Student Council became a popularly-elected body two years ago, the College's political idealists have been hovering anxiously around the ballot boxes, hoping to see democracy vindicated. The student vote would bring in topnotch men, the idealists ventured, and with a real mandate, these democratic Councils would do a better job than had their predecessors under the appointive system. Unfortunately, this has not been the case. Not only has student interest in Council activities failed to show any appreciable upswing, but the voters themselves have exhibited a mighty disregard for the blessings of the secret ballot...