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THREE-WAY MERGER is proposed by boards of Textilemaker Bachmann Uxbridge Worsted Corp. (1956 sales: $33 million), American Hard Rubber Co. (sales: $27 million) and Wardell Corp., which sold its Eureka vacuum-cleaner business in 1953. If stockholders approve, stock swap will produce new, diversified industrial company to be called Amerace Corp...
...with the Justice Department and made public; 2) a move to seek congressional authorization for the Labor Department to make public the 38,000 union financial statements filed each year under a Taft-Hartley provision. Predicted Mitchell: "The labor movement will emerge from this period of trial stronger and cleaner and more responsive to the welfare of its members than ever before...
...introduce his music to the U.S. live, by staging a similar production in Manhattan. Meanwhile, his record remains the funniest musical joke in years. "A breath of fresh air," said one London critic. "I admired particularly the coloratura attack and secure intonation," said another, speaking of a vacuum-cleaner player...
...Broadway theater, Playwright Osborne was hailed not only as Britain's angriest young man, but as the theater's rediscoverer of Britain's neglected lower-middle-class snob. Anger's hero, afflicted by a miserable childhood and his flops as a vacuum-cleaner salesman and a bandleader, speaks his outraged pieces on such hallowed British institutions as the scandalous News of the World, gaitered bishops, church bells, U.S. evangelists and dear old Mummy ("My God, those worms will need a good dose of salts the day they get through...
Attar of Skunk Juice. A significant share of the credit for the Teamsters' growth went to Dave Beck, the red-haired son of a hard-working carpet cleaner and a laundress, who entered the union's ranks by way of a job as a laundry driver, and became West Coast organizer. The jurisdictional labor wars of the 1930s were groin-kicking, skullcracking, stink-bombing affairs, and Dave Beck's West Coast goon squad was the toughest of the lot. (One of its oldtime mugs last week recalled paying a Northwest trapper $100 a quart for attar...