Word: drexel
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...wooden cabinets for color TV. Many companies have doubled or tripled production, are busy turning out decorator cabinets that can run the cost of a TV set (average: $550) up to $1,600. Both Miller TV Products Co. of High Point, N.C. (which supplies RCA and Motorola), and Drexel Furniture (which supplies Motorola) have greatly stepped up production to meet demand. Small Muntz TV Inc. recently bought into a Michigan cabinetmaker in order to protect its supply, and other TV makers are looking over cabinetmakers with an acquisitive eye. The increased TV work, meanwhile, has produced an unanticipated shortage...
...music demonstration, Hortensio (Todd Drexel) at least actually plays the 'cello on stage. And when Lucentio (Robert Benedict) pretends to give Bianca a Latin lesson, "Hic ibat Simois," etc. has been supplanted by "Gallia est omnis," etc. on the undoubtedly accurate grounds that Caesar's De Bello Gallico will be more familiar to audiences than Ovid's Heroides. One wonders, however, why any of these three gentlemen would want to marry Bianca, for Geneva Bugbee makes her an insipid nullity...
...Ambassador to Spain: Angier Biddle Duke, 49, for four years the State Department protocol chief, onetime Ambassador to El Salvador, nephew of the late Anthony J. Drexel Biddie, himself a onetime Ambassador to Spain...
...cluttered industry of some 5,000 manufacturers scattered through the U.S., the four largest companies are the most comfortable of all. The big four-Kroehler, Bassett, Drexel and Thomasville-have made sales gains so far this year of 13% to 20%. Says Drexel Executive Vice President David J. Brunn: "You always dream of the day when your line will be hot and the economic climate will be good-both at the same time. That's what's happening to us this year...
...Todd Drexel's Osric, while dandyish, punctilious and well-oiled, manages for once to avoid being effeminate. Josef Sommer's handling of the First Player's ancient Roman narrative need not, I think, be quite so rhetorical...