Word: bedspreads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coming item. This year 7,500,000 thermals will be sold, as compared with 400,000 wools, 5,500,000 electrics and 5,000,000 acrylics. Most blanket-makers now produce thermals ranging in price from $3.99 to $20. They would much rather not. But three years ago a bedspread manufacturer, Morgan-Jones, put the first cotton thermal into U.S. stores. With little advertising except by word of mouth, the response was such that within a year, most companies were forced to compete...
Died. Catherine Evans Whitener, 83, who at the age of 15 snipped off each bit of yarn as it came through the cloth of a bedspread she was making, thus inventing the tufted bedspread, something that has since become one of Georgia's largest industries as mass production built up tufted textiles into a $500 million-a-year business; of cancer; in Dalton...
Carroll Baker lies on a bed on a Hollywood Carpetbaggers set, dressed only in a bedspread, and says good morning to the film crew as if she were a switchboard operator in an office. The TV crew hung around the Carpetbaggers set for two weeks, and the wait paid off even more: they were there and shooting when a chandelrer on which Carroll Baker was swinging pulled out of the ceiling and crashed to the floor. A battling horde of Romans and Persians, practicing in Spain's Guadarra-mas for Samuel Bronston's The Fall of the Roman...
...Pahlmann's favorite manner, one small bedroom is tented with cotton in blue, red and gold stripes. The library has a door, concealed by bookshelves, that leads directly into this bedroom. The master bedroom, whose ceiling is overlaid with the Chinese tea paper, has a bedspread made from a Greek rug, and a headboard upholstered in mustard-colored leather...
...took a bedspread, and, using nothing but safety pins, he draped and hung the material, creating one of the most exciting strapless gowns I've ever seen. For a stole, he and several other hostelers went to the Bois de Boulogne and gathered sacks of green ivy, which they stitched to a latticework of ribbon...