Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Immaculate in a faultless dress suit and wearing the battered silk topper for which he is internationally famous, Ted Lewis, the "High-hatted Tragedian of Song", walked in from the stage of the Metropolitan Theatre in Boston where he is appearing this week, and obligingly submitted to a few pertinent questions by the CRIMSON reporter...
...years ago while playing at the famous Rector's cafe on Broadway he became engaged in a friendly "crap" game with a little colored cabby who was an institution around the place, and in the course of the evening won from the latter his most prized possession, a shiny silk topper. That night Lewis wore the hat during his performance at Rector's--probably for laughs--and it caused so much comment that he's worn it ever since...
Meantime another old silk family, neither weavers nor spinners but merchants, became convinced that what Belding needed was new management. The commission house of E. Gerli & Co. already owned a small interest in Belding, and as the stock dropped they bought & bought. Paolino Gerli, general manager of his family house, is the swart, able young head of the International Silk Guild. Belding stockholders were soon convinced that Paolino Gerli knew something about their business. High Belding executives were shuffled around until Mr. Gerli finally picked Raymond Charles Kramer for president...
President Kramer was a troubleshooting merchandiser, an associate director in Amos Parish & Co., director of Hahn Department Stores. He promptly bought out Corticelli, one of Belding's few spool silk competitors, concentrated production in the efficient Putnam, Conn, plants, scrapped the unprofitable fabric and hosiery manufacturing division, wound up last year with a $500,000 profit. He continued to make money this year, paid off a bond issue. Last week the Belding Heminway directors declared a 50? dividend - their first in six years...
...extensive collection of the correspondence of the various members of the classes as well as the University records relating to their attendance at class and chapel, their parentage cards, and their records as kept by the deans' office. Among the more curious contributions are several napkin rings, a white silk necktie which was worn at the commencement of 1862, and a diploma which was put in a safe when the Chicago fire threatened the house and which was subjected to such intense heat that the 10 by 17 parchment shrunk to about 5 by 7 without making the inscription illegible...