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...fashion show in Burlington Mills Corp.'s Manhattan office last week, the textile company showed the public something it has never seen before. Bur-Mill paraded dresses, evening gowns, men's bathing trunks and men's & women's suits of Du Font's new synthetic, Orion (TIME, March 20). The garments were washable, wrinkle-resistant, warm to the touch, and, unlike nylon, were porous...
...with his electric mower that further sleep was impossible. One week later at the very same hour, he was back with an electric leaf raker, with the same result. Seven days after that he was copping ice, not steadily and rhythmically so that one could get used to it, bur irregularly. Success in this third plot was so overwhelming that he came back the following week and REPEATED THE PERFORMANCE...
When Burlington Mills Corp. (Bur-Mil), largest U.S. weaver of rayon goods, slashed its prices 10% to 25% a fortnight ago, its 52-year-old Chairman J. (for James) Spencer Love made a calculated gamble. He was betting that the price of rayon fiber, which Burlington has to buy to weave its fabrics, would soon come down enough to make up the difference...
Giant's Stretch. Now Burlington not only makes 10% of all U.S. woven rayon goods, but is also the biggest U.S. producer of ribbons and second biggest maker of nylon stockings. Love keeps a sharp eye peeled for ways to improve Bur-Mil's products. To test Burlington's fabrics, he gets samples of clothing which other manufacturers make from them, and has Burlington's employees wear them. He set up a monthly fashion clinic for the big clothing designers and manufacturers, thus anticipates (and sometimes creates) trends...
...living authors have been deluged with the spate of homage which highbrow critics have loosed on I. Compton-Bur-nett. But as far as the general public is concerned, she might as well be dead-and not even her most passionate admirers (who include Elizabeth Bowen and Rosamund Lehmann) could fairly accuse the public of stupidity and ignorance. For all Compton-Burnett's novels (she has published eleven during the past 37 years) appear at first glance to be out of this world, artificial, aimless...