Word: tilton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eric F. Gardner '35, professor of Education, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y., will serve for two years, filling the unexpired term of the late John P. Tilton...
...Marion Tilton went to work in Japan for SCAP in 1946 to encourage the growth of Japan's silk industry, once the nation's biggest dollar earner. It seemed a hopeless job. A wartime government order scrapping silk looms as nonessential wrecked the industry in Japan, while U.S. scientists wrecked it abroad by giving women a new set of materials which no hard-working silkworm could hope to match...
Silk to War. Marion Tilton's first job was to convince the textile men that silk stockings were finished. She did this by appearing in nylon stockings at factories, at geisha parties, town banquets, whereever there was an audience. She talked about the new U.S. synthetics, then dramatically rolled down her nylons, pulled, stretched, even washed them. She persuaded textile men to compete in the U.S. in fabrics...
...Marion Tilton preached the gospel of quality, and a few Japanese mills began turning out a trickle of high-grade materials which were sent to New York for display, with the proclamation: "Japan is back in the silk business." It was not. Few orders were taken...
...words: dough re mi. It is not a very exciting theme, even when played by the most famed clarinet in the world. Benny (TV's Steve Allen) makes some fairly pleasant music with the help of the real E.G. on the sound track, along with Gene Krupa, Martha Tilton, Lionel Hampton, Ziggy Elman, Ben Pollack, Teddy Wilson and Kid Ory. But the licks are not quite so hot as they used to be, and the intermissions are stone cold. The only problem Goodman ever had, it would appear, was whether or not he should marry a million dollars (Donna...