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When we think of Shakespearean productions, our minds usually turn to the Stratford-on-Avon Festival and the Old Vic. These are now established institutions; the former began on the play-wright's tercentenary in 1864 and after rough sledding has continued as we know it from 1879, while the Old Vic has been a home for Shakespeare since...
Since it takes a hefty pot of gold to meet such competition, big companies are taking over what used to be an industry of small firms. The industry's biggest is Avon (1957 sales: a record $100,379,695), which sells its products door to door with the help of some 100,000 representatives. But the liveliest is fast-growing Revlon, run by aggressive Charles Revson, 51. Revson founded his company in 1932, built it up to a $95 million gross last year by advertising the elegance and glamorous names of his products, popularizing such ideas as matching lipstick...
...home state of Connecticut, John Alsop carries some impressive credentials. He belongs to an old Avon (Conn.) family, went to exclusive Groton and Yale ('37), served overseas in the cloak-and-dagger OSS in World War II, steadily climbed the promotion ladder in Hartford's Mutual Insurance Co. from field inspector ('46) to president ('53), twice won election to the Connecticut General Assembly (1947 and 1949), and won friends among Eisenhower Republicans as a Connecticut Yankee for Ike in both...
Died. Sir Alfred Zimmern, 78, egg-bald British political scientist, historian, longtime (1930-44) Oxford professor of international relations, who helped draft the League of Nations Covenant and shape the framework of UNESCO; of a cerebral thrombosis; in Avon, Conn...
...student, Bernard A. Wiseblatt '57, decided to run the service after sucessfully planning bus trips to the Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon, Conn., and to the Wellesley Theatre this past summer...