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Kindergarten & Bookworms. All these machines are the products of a little-known firm called Farrington Manufacturing Co. of Needham Heights, Mass., an old-line display-box and credit-card maker that has taken a giant step into electronics. Tiny Farrington (1959 gross revenues: $10.9 million) has stolen a march on the nation's giant business machine makers. It is the only U.S. company with scanners in commercial operation, already has 31 reading voraciously for U.S. industry. This week Farrington announced that five insurance companies have ordered optical scanners to solve their premium-billing paperwork problems. Farrington's scanners...
Last week, at 76, Editor Allen left the Star-Bulletin's newsroom for good. The 1954 death of Joseph R. Farrington, son of the paper's founder and longtime Hawaii delegate to the U.S. Congress, generated a court fight for control between Farrington's widow Betty and his sister, wife of General Edmond H. Leavey (ret.), ex-president of the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. Betty Farrington won a 2-1 majority, but lost the services of her editor and friend. In appointing Editor Allen as a trustee of the Farrington estate, the court stipulated that Allen would...
...FARRINGTON MANUFACTURING Co..a56-year-old maker of display cases, is one of the older companies that changed course to catch the electronics boom, moved to 128. In 1929 Farrington devised the department stores' Charga-Plate, which gave it entry to two of the 1950s' hottest business areas-credit cards and automatic accounting systems. Four years ago Farrington moved into one of the highway's larg-« est plants (354,000 sq. ft.), there prints credit cards (for Hilton, 35 oil companies, all the airlines), manufactures printed circuits. It also produces a remarkable machine: an electronic scanner...
Born. To Suzanne Farrington, 24, daughter of Vivien Leigh (by her first marriage), and Robin Farrington. 30, insurance broker: a son, Actress Leigh's first grandchild; in London. Name: Neville Leigh. Weight...
While applications for the class of 1962 are running considerably higher than last year's, the number of applications for '61 represented a significant increase over the previous entering class, Mrs. Farrington reported. Applicants for the Class of 1960, however, showed only a small increase over the preceding class, she said...