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...meeting also heard the appointments of David E. Owen, professor of History to the chairmanship of the History Department of Randall Thompson N. Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music to the top post in Music, and of Philip H. Rhinelander '29, lecturer on General Education to head the Committee on General Education...
...unusual gifts go, BIGELOW, KENNARD COMPANY, at 384 Boylston Street in Boston, has the unusual gift idea of the year. This pair of binoculars, strong, useful, and good-looking, folds up into its leather case to the size of a wallet. It sells for only $18.00. Also at Bigelow's is this Parker butane lighter, which will mystify friends and provide a year of lights to the heaviest smoker without refilling. It costs...
Most Americans-including some who would insist that art gives them a pain-like pretty pictures on calendars. On the opposite page are reproduced three of the biggest-selling calendar pictures for 1952. All are published by the St. Paul firm of Brown & Bigelow (TIME, July 5, 1948), which supplies half of the 120 million commercial calendars made in the U.S. each year. These three paintings reflect the three most popular categories of calendar...
...carpet industry, said James D. Wise, president of Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Co., Inc., last week, "has been shackled to a sheep for too long." And the sheep has given the industry a rough ride; in six months carpet wool prices jumped from 85? a lb. to as high as $2.30. In an attempt to keep up with soaring raw-wool prices, U.S. manufacturers priced their carpets right out of the market. As sales dropped and inventories piled up, three big price cuts in carpets failed to pull the industry out of its worst slump in years; production was headed...
...spring line, more than 75% of Bigelow's carpets will use synthetics (carpet rayon), compared to only 27% a year ago. Other carpet companies, e.g., James Lees & Sons, are doing the same. To many a carpetmaker, the switch is the biggest single change in the industry since the invention of the carpet power loom more than 100 years...