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...else is clean or an unexpected guest arrives), today account for less than 45% of home sales. More and more, the going way to go to bed is in checks and plaids, scallops, scrollwork, and fields upon blooming fields of flowers. And for the linen closet that has everything, Fieldcrest last week rounded out the collection. The newest way to turn in with style: stars and stripes...
...titles: Mumford, 51, has been president and chief executive of Unilever's U.S. arm since 1959; last week he became chairman as well, succeeding retired William H. Burkhart. Illinois-born and educated (University of Illinois '35), Mumford came to soapmaking Lever Bros., ten years ago from towelmaking Fieldcrest Mills. As president, he has followed a Burkhart strategy of not knocking heads with bigger Procter & Gamble, instead pushing products that Lever has hit the market with first. From Lever's glassy Lever House in Manhattan, Mumford directs a firm cost control program. While sales increased only slightly...
...dropped in on an upper Broadway auto agency and decided on five Cadillacs in as many minutes. A note-taking aide asked, "Five Cadillacs, Your Majesty?" Replied Hassan, "Um . . . yes, five." His biggest field day was at the Fieldcrest textile showroom, where he bought so fast and furiously that salesmen had to send out for more order pads. While inspecting samples, King Hassan's face would light up or turn somber as he pronounced his verdicts of "Très distingué!" or "Passé." The King was said to "adore prints" and bought a total...
...eighth of nine children of a poor tenant tobacco farmer, Hodges started working as a twelve-year-old hand in Marshall Field & Co.'s Fieldcrest mill at Spray, N.C., worked his way through the University of North Carolina ('19), then went back to the Spray mill. He rose rapidly, became vice president of Marshall Field in 1943, and in 1950 he retired, at 52, to devote the rest of his life to public service. He served a year as industrial chief of the U.S. Economic Cooperation Administration in Germany. In 1952, unwanted and unsupported by the state...
...strongest argument in favor of industrial chaplains is made in the plants where they are already at work. North Carolina's Fieldcrest Mills started its program six years ago, and neither management nor workers has regretted the move. At Fieldcrest, the Rev. James K. McConnell visits sick workers, keeps in contact with retired employees, tours the plant daily and makes himself available to people who need help to solve their troubles. All counseling is strictly secret, strictly voluntary. Chaplain McConnell, a Southern Baptist, has an average of three counseling talks a day with Fieldcrest workers on problems ranging from...