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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foot tuba provided the bandsmen with opportunity to display almost unparalleled ingenuity. When the massive horn was dropped last year outside Symphony Hall, managers were seriously puzzled as to how to fit it--within the band budget. They finally got a satisfactory repair job, cheaply, an auto body repair shop...
...Nazi occupation of Denmark. Friends at the Arts and Crafts School introduced him to ceramics. Fascinated, he defied the Nazi curfew to slip into the school at night to work at the kilns. After his first ceramics show proved a critical and popular success, he started his own shop with three kilns and two helpers. They worked long and seriously through the week. But on Saturday they had fun, making spontaneous, gay pieces. Since then, these have become the regular product of the Wiinblad kilns. Says Wiinblad: "Now every day is Saturday...
Miss Radcliffe will receive a Parker Pen and Pencil set from the Coop; a sweater from Corcorans'; jewelry from the Upper Story; an LP record from Minute-Man Radio Shop; a Harvard muffler from J. August; a print from the Behn-Moore Gallery; and a permanent free pass to the Brattle Theatre...
...Francis Carlson ("Jack") Reith, general manager of Ford of France, went to an American Embassy dinner in Paris and found himself sitting next to Henri-Thèodore Pigozzi, managing director of Simca. France's third biggest automaker (after Renault and CitrÖen). The two started talking shop, found that their ideas about France and about automobiles were remarkably similar. This week the meeting of their minds gave France a new industrial giant. French Ford stockholders voted to merge their company with Simca, making the new company second in size only to the nationalized Renault auto works. Pigozzi...
Employee recreation got its start when Chicago Railroad Car Builder George Pullman passed out some baseball equipment to the men in his shop in 1883. By last year it had snowballed to the point where 30,000 U.S. companies spent $800 million on recreation-50% higher than in 1948. The National Industrial Recreation Association, organized by 14 companies in 1941, now has 300 members...