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Among the U.S. products still standing watch over their good names, still demanding Upper-Case billing in news stories, novels and shopping columns: Erector Set, Band-Aid, Dixie cup, JellO, Jeep, Laundromat, Kleenex. Deepfreeze, Levi's (blue jeans). Dry Ice, Simoniz, Spray Net and Zipper...
...Julian Levi...
...activist economic advisers, who want him to intervene more often and more forcefully in the affairs of business. At very least, the atmosphere was plainly not conducive to price increases of any kind. In San Francisco, the nation's "blue jean king," President Walter Haas of Levi Strauss & Co., had planned to raise his own prices by 3%-though he had condemned the steel price rise as "unconscionable." In one of the week's most notable non sequiturs, Haas quickly withdrew his raises because "although our business has absolutely no relation to steel, we feel that the impact...
...friends, unable to make her stop this pathetic exchange of treasure for indulgence, settled for finding local buyers who would pay high prices. The chief crusader, Mrs. Walter Haas, wife of the chairman of Levi Strauss & Co., bought Woman with a Hat for $20,000. Sarah, with growing compulsion, let the paintings go. When she died in 1953, so disturbed that she could not even stand the sight of her few remaining paintings, almost the entire collection had been scattered through...
Perry B. Molinoff '62 will work as managing editor, with Jonathan M. Pynoos '64 as his associate. Also holding executive positions are John M. Schwarts '64, John R. Schwille '63, George A. Levi '63, and Rey M. MacLeod...