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Flabella Sirs: TIME was correct in stating "ostrich-plumed flabella" in its account of the procession on the Feast of Corpus Christi as opposed to accuracy- loving Fraser Nairn who insists that they were peacock fans. Recent newsreels of the event prove that. Perhaps Mrs. Drexel's peacock-feathered flabella have been retired. However, her gift to the pontiffs was conspicuously absent on this occasion. JOHN E. P. MclLVAINE Minneapolis, Minn...
...FRASER NAIRN...
Congoleum-Nairn had a banner year, making $1,239.000 against $208,000. Although this amounted to only 90? a share, the company's strong financial position enabled it to go on a $1 dividend basis last summer after six dividendless years...
...praise to Camden, N.J. for containing the factories of RCA-Victor Co., Campbell Soup Co., Armstrong Cork Co., Jantzen Knitting Mills, New York Shipbuilding Co., Congoleum-Nairn Inc. et al., and the house in which Poet Walt Whitman died...
Congoleum was formed as Congoleum Co. in 1916. Its chief backer and first vice president was Alfred William Erickson. Up & down Europe it met fierce competition from Sir Michael Nairn of Scotland whose family had been making linoleum since 1847. In 1924, whipped, Congoleum was glad to become Congoleum-Nairn, Inc. Its chairman is now Alfred William Erickson, although his chief interest is the advertising firm of McCann-Erickson. Inc. Vice Chairman is Baronet Nairn, jovial, bushy-mustached, fond of sports. With hat turned far down in front he drives to sporting events in a strange motor wagonette, scrambles onto...