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Fairchild, now 40, has varied the once lackluster trade journal with sometimes effusive, sometimes cutting personality sketches of socially prominent people. The result has been a good deal of creative, if sometimes spurious, gossip. Fairchild has thus been a large factor in fusing the fashion world with the jet set. Women's Wear also runs pungent theater reviews by Martin Gottfried and hippie book reviews by Peter Prescott, whose father Orville reviews more squarely for the New York Times. Circulation has risen in the past six years by 30%, to 65,000. "Fairchild is responsible for reaching a totally...
Last year Fairchild inherited complete charge of the 76-year-old family company. Since then, combined circulation of its nine trade publications has increased 8%, to 408,000. Fairchild has applied his deft touch to such seemingly charmless journals as Footwear News and Electronic News. The publications are better to look at, easier to read, and less subservient to the industries they cover. The Fairchild Co. has lost $7,000,000 on its two most recently founded journals, Metalworking News and Drug News Weekly, but overall revenues reached $30 million last year...
Some summer bandsmen are professionals, but others are amateurs who trade briefcases and lunch buckets for trumpets and sousaphones. The trend is noticeable in several parts of the country, but is especially strong in New England, where Chatham, Mass., draws audiences from Boston and beyond. Winsted, Conn., Rotarians raised $6,000 to build a new bandstand; Lions in Winchester, Mass., pledged their 50-member band a new shell. Boston's new Prudential Center plaza has gingham-covered tables, straw boaters on the light globes and its own Gazebo Band...
...entrepreneur born in the Virgin Islands of Danish-French ancestry (though "Sosthenes" is Greek for "of sound strength"), founded it as a New York-based holding company for several Caribbean telephone companies he had recently acquired. Behn's choice of a corporate name was an unabashed effort to trade on the reputation of the giant American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Behn was successful in creating this confusion; even today, many people think of ITT as the international division of A.T. & T. Behn received a more tangible assist from A.T. & T. in 1925 when that company sold him its foreign manufacturing...
...Trade in Jeopardy. The need for some supplement to gold has long been apparent to most monetary experts. In recent years, the situation has become especially acute as hoarders have stashed away huge quantities of the metal, thus depriving international trade of its most valued medium of exchange...