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...safe but the name of his product. On the one hand, he desperately wants the public to get in the habit of asking for it by name; on the other, he shudders at the thought of that name becoming the name for anybody else's similar product. Kodak, B.V.D., and Coca-Cola have for generations bared their teeth in courtrooms to protect their names from slipping into the generic limbo where mimeograph and nylon now languish in lower-case ignominy...
...Eastman Kodak...
...Harvard Chemistry Department has received a one-year grant of $12,500 from the Eastman Kodak Company's aid-to-education program. The major portion of the funds awarded is for unrestricted use in research programs and new or improved facilities, but $1,000 provides an award to honor the achievements of an outstanding doctoral student. The Chemistry Department's grant is the maximum amount awarded to any one department...
Died. Thomas Jean Hargrave, 70, board chairman of Eastman Kodak Co., a sturdy Nebraska-born lawyer who started off his career with the world's biggest photographic company by refusing autocratic Founder George Eastman's offer to make him an officer of the firm, but subsequently relented and rapidly rose to the top of the Kodak tripod, where he expanded the company's sales 81% in 20 years by adding chemicals and plastics to its output; after a long illness; in Rochester...
...week chose as chairman and chief executive officer U.S. Industries Chairman John I Snyder Jr., 52. A strong Democrat and an executive of proven skill, Snyder built the highly diversified U.S. Industries out of Pittsburgh's old Pressed Steel Car Co. Says he: "I don't think Kodak has known that Ansco was around-but it will...