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Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N.Y., $22,000; C. R. Bard Inc., Murray Hill, N.J., $20,000; Sterilon Corp., Buffalo, $15,886; Richards Manufacturing Co., Memphis, $14,000; Orthopedic Equipment Co., Bourbon, Ind., $13,000; Clay-Adams Inc., N.Y.C., $5,457; Warren E. Collins Inc., Boston, $4,855; Taylor Instrument Co., Rochester, N.Y., $4,650; Acme Cotton Products Co., N.Y.C., $4,000; E. Leitz Inc., N.Y.C., $2,880; Birtcher Corp., Los Angeles, $970; J. H. Emerson Co., Cambridge, Mass., $450; Tecumseh Products Co., Tecumseh, Mich., $200; George P. Pilling & Co., Philadelphia...
...General Sarnoff prefers Suite 486 in a wing of the hotel that is not air-conditioned, special 220-volt lines are run to the room, air-conditioner installed, along with (naturally) an RCA color television set. Shell Oil Co.'s Director H.S.M. Burns likes "Wild Turkey" bourbon, finds a fifth of it waiting for him when he arrives. Commander Whitehead, besides a gross or two of Schweppes, is also provided with a bottle of Beefeater's gin and a key to the pool for his early-morning swim...
...Barn. Pekin, the home of Bird Farm Sausage, Bourbon Supreme and Olt's Duck Calls, was a pleasant place for boys. They played "stink base," "run, sheep, run," football and marbles, fished for crappies and perch in the river. The block on which the Dirksen house stood was rimmed with bushy maple trees, and Tom Dirksen recalls that "you could climb up in one tree and go all the way around the block without touching the ground, climbing from tree to tree." But Everett didn't go in too much for that sort of amusement. Says...
...Paris, Kentucky bourbon is sometimes to be found at a price, because U.S. distillers a few years ago set up the Bourbon Institute (it is not a university) to promote exports. In Tokyo, the Japanese can buy Munsingwear undershorts, though U.S. textilemakers complain that the Japanese underprice them around the world. The Chun King Corp. of Duluth, Minn., recently began shipping chow mein in cans to Formosa. In less bizarre ways, too, some resourceful U.S. businessmen are expanding exports, which in the second quarter hit $5.5 billion, up 10% from 1961's second quarter. June was the best month...
...your blood and you can't stop." Weekdays he was a journeyman carpenter on construction jobs; weekends he played semiprofessional ball. Webb hit nails and nailed hitters all over the West, from Calgary down to the Mexican border, developing at the same time a taste for old bourbon and young ladies. During World War I, he worked in the Oakland shipyards; when it was over, he married his childhood sweetheart, Hazel Church. The marriage broke up in 1952, and last year Webb married pretty, brunette Toni Ince, 41, buyer for the Bullock's-Wilshire department store...