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...sharp Executive Vice President Emmett Heitler, a brother-in-law who runs the company's day-to-day operations, Samsonite has been diversifying. It recently opened a new factory in Loveland, Colo., to make children's interlocking construction sets, is planning to expand further into the toy field. Luggage will continue to be the company's mainstay: it makes more bags than the next ten luggage manufacturers combined. Some of the pieces are not available to the public: Samsonite makes special luggage for such firms as Ampex and IBM, turns out the special navy-blue bags that...
...years have concentrated on building up a $700 million market in agricultural tractors, have found another $100 mil lion business right in the backyard - of thousands of U.S. homeowners. With increasingly bigger homesites and more money in the family budget, the small garden or utility tractor, long mostly a toy for the wealthy, has become an all-round bestseller in suburbia and exurbia. Only six years ago, garden-tractor sales were a bare 27,000 throughout the U.S.; this year the industry expects them...
Also Dropouts. Last week the man of the moment was Herman, 16, of Herman's Hermits. An engaging high school dropout who looks like a toy sheep dog, Herman (real name: Peter Noone) smiles a lot, claps his hands over his head, and sticks his finger in his mouth when he sings. His Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter, rendered in a heavy English Midlands accent, was the No. 1 bestseller last week. Right behind it was Count Me In by Gary Lewis and the Playboys. Gary is Comedian Jerry Lewis' son. Unfortunately, he favors an overdose...
...playwright that, in the current revival. The Glass Menagerie somehow survives the guiltless and inadvertent miscasting of three of its four roles. The gentleman caller, expertly modeled by Pat Hingle, can be of the commonest clay, but the three family parts must be made of glass just like the toy menagerie...
...current assemblage show, contain heaps of real oil gauges, fan blades, or teapots. Very cool and a bit Dada, Arman's accumulations deliberately arouse no emotions in their viewers-unless possibly pique. But the Modern acquired one-a blend of matchboxes with pictures of cars and tiny toy vehicles...