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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JAMES SPENCER LOVE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Textiles' Turnabout Tycoon | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

...epidemic was at first widely described as "Q flu" because of the question as to its nature. Virologists soon proved that the virus was no mystery agent-merely the familiar Asian strain. But the ill-health picture in the area was complicated by other factors: the semiannual epidemic of "Spencer's disease," as local doctors like to call unexplained outbreaks of nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, and a second type of upper respiratory illness, milder than flu, presumably caused by a virus of a different family. One or another of Los Angeles' varied plagues knocked out such widely assorted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Flu Again | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

...boasts the top man in the $15 billion-a-year textile industry: North Carolina's young-looking, wiry (5 ft. 10 in., 143 Ibs.) J. Spencer Love, 63, who sewed up a bunch of middling mills into one efficient producer called Burlington Industries, world's biggest weaver. By bringing in modern machinery and management and gambling heavily on the wonder synthetics, Spencer Love boosted Burlington's sales from $651 million in fiscal 1958 to $805 million in 1959; in fiscal 1960's first half (ending March 31) profits will almost double, to about $17.5 million. More...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Textiles' Turnabout Tycoon | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

Whiffenpoof & Hair Spray. The guests began arriving at 10 p.m.: Lord Charles Spencer-Churchill (son of the Duke of Marlborough) of England, the Winston Guests of New York, the Gary Coopers of California, the Nicholas du Fonts of Delaware, General Motors' President John F. Gordon, Chrysler Corp.'s President Lester ("Tex") Colbert, as well as the bejeweled cream of Boston, Philadelphia and Palm Beach society. They promenaded-past 35 car parkers, 16 security men and a formally attired plumber and electrician-through the heavily screened men's locker room into the reception room, where 18-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIETY: Minuet in 250 Gs | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

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