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...Some Bad Times." Until ten years ago, said Clarence Wimpfheimer, president of Stonington, Connecticut's American Velvet Co., there were frequent labor disputes and "I had some bad times with the boys." After a 16-month strike, Wimpfheimer adopted a profit-sharing plan for his 350 employees, all members of the C.I.O. Textile Workers Union. The company, which has had no work stoppage since then, last year paid $180,000 into profit-shares and pension funds, equal to 22% of each man's wages...
...doubt Actress Cornell was sufficiently charmed by the part to shut her eye to the play. Ana allows her a fine actressy evening in black velvet and white brocade; she suffers, poor woman, almost as much as the audience. The other players have not so much roles as rigmaroles, which cannot be acted, but only hammed. Henry Daniell hams best, as the King...
...Baltimore, reformed Stripteaser Margie Hart, starring in the legitimate theater with a role in Light Up the Sky, backslid into burlesque when her black velvet pajamas split during the third...
Instead of velvet or calico, the current Wellesleyite sometimes wears bluejeans, and often a man's shirt. In class, with a bandanna about her head, she sometimes looks a bit like a glamorized peasant woman trying to learn English...
...year, or as little as $200; her average is $1,200. Almost half (46%) of her classmates come from public high schools; one out of four is on a full-or part-time scholarship. Founder Durant had always insisted that "a calico girl is worth two velvet girls...