Word: avon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When the Fuller Brush Man rings once, look twice-he may well be a woman. After relying almost entirely on men for 60 years, Connecticut's Fuller Brush Co.-taking a tip from Avon Products-has hired 17,500 women this year, plans eventually to field 50,000, mostly part time. Throughout the country employers are turning more and more to women to fill jobs that they have never held before, or at least not since the World War II heyday of Rosie the Riveter...
...noted, "it would be possible to say more. If my English friends after this period agree to voice all the truths about this question, I should agree." If any of Pineau's English friends were to speak up, it would have to be Eden-now the Earl of Avon-and Lloyd, and last week they both were keeping...
...third line of attack is being used by residents of Avon House, who have been recruiting concerned Cliffies to throng to the RGA legislature meeting. They have also urged people to flood RGA with letters. Signs have gone up in some dorms urging participation in the Avon House strategy...
...Among its recent productions: Olivier's first Othello, Coward's Hayfever, Brecht's Mother Courage. Peter Hall was involved in a similar buskin-strap operation on the Royal Shakespeare Company. Before he took over in 1960, the group had restricted itself to Shakespeare at Stratford on Avon. Today, thanks to a $252,000-a-year subsidy, Hall has added a London theater, the Aldwych, and a year-round company of 110. Marat/Sade is a Royal Shakespeare production...
Married. Peter Hall, 34, director of Britain's Royal Shakespeare Theater; and Jacqueline Taylor, 29, his secretary; he for the second time; in Stratford on Avon, England...