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...Althea Gibson, first Negro to play in a South Florida tennis tournament, over top-seeded Betty Rosenquest, 6-4, 6-2, for the Good Neighbor title...
...EDWIN T. GIBSON, 66, executive vice president and director of General Foods Corp., to be adviser to Harrison with duties still to be determined...
Guest of honor at a Manhattan exhibition of her late husband's pompadoured beauties: Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, 77. Dressed in a trim dark suit draped with orchids, the "Original Gibson Girl" posed before a portrait drawn of her half a century...
...seasonably propel new fashion twists across the nation. And milliners were joyfully proving that a whole new set of hats would be necessary. A really modish woman was expected to carry extra chignons with her (cost: $7.50 to $150 each) and to be ready to run the gamut, from Gibson Girl curls to Marie Antoinette birdcage, in one working...
...changing the name to Hoffman Radio to avoid confusion with Mission Bell Wine). But Hoffman did not get a chance to make many radios then. World War II made him, instead, the world's largest manufacturer of kites. He turned out 300,000 "antenna-hoisters" used for the "Gibson Girl" transmitters installed on life rafts. He had two plants and was grossing $4,200,000 at war's end, when he finally got his chance for big-scale manufacture of radio & television sets. It was the right time; the TV boom was just starting...