Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...processes designed to 1) prevent wool from "matting," thus making it easily washable, and 2) pre-shrink rayon as Sanforizing does cotton.* Cluett, Peabody also showed off a new president: youngish (41), ruddy Barry T. Leithead, up from vice president in charge of sales to replace Chesly Robert ("Bob") Palmer who, at 65, had decided to take life easier. (He will remain a director...
...apparent that they are contemporaries of Oscar Wilde. The talk is about their hosts who have just opened in a new play. One particularly saucy young man tells how Gay (Miss Gordon) was "discovered" by Gerald, already an established star, when she was a chamber-maid at the Palmer House. (A titter is heard around the stage at that remark which manages somehow to spread out into the audience: perhaps the playwright has not misjudged the audience after all.) Nevertheless, the young man continues, everyone loves Gay and just hates Gerald because he is so mean...
...masthead in 12-point type as "Bruce Gould and Beatrice Blackmar Gould, Editors." They are far better known to the public than most of the editing confraternity, because of such journalistic didos as cozy "interviews" with notables like Eleanor Roosevelt and Harold Stassen, which were actually written by Gretta Palmer and J. C. Furnas, respectively...
George Cole, general manager of the Coop, agreed that the book supply is greater than in recent years of paper shortages. He added that he has hired 26 extra salesmen to man the newly installed Palmer st. annex...
Despite the extra help, however, the Coop lines yesterday curled out the door, up Palmer at to Boylston st., and then doubled back...