Canned Dresses and More Stir Seasonal Packaging Fun
The piece spotlights the rise of The Canned Dress and related novelty items as Christmas packaging craze. Franklin Simon and Wippette Sportswear push canning fashion with wrinkleproof nylon dresses selling for 25 dollars and hats for seven, while shoppers explore canned air and other items. Sears Roebuck offers can sealing gear and can supplies as part of the trend.
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AP Business News
NEW York (Ap
Wilmer Wise
Franklin Simon
New York
Wise
Ben Wechester
Wippette Sportswear, Inc
Canada
London
Paris
Wippette
Erwin Silver
No Holiday For Sugar Cane Workers
Miami based AP report notes Cuba keeps Christmas and New Year work in sugar mills as Fidel Castro targets a 7.5 million ton crop. Previous records show 7 million tons in 1952, 4.5 million last year, with equipment wear, repairs, and fertilizer shortages cited by exiled Revolutionary Unity.
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Miami
Fla
Cuba
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Revoluctionary Unity
Virginian Randolph Wins Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford
Robert C. Randolph IV of Brodnax Brunswick County a senior English major at VMI earned a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University next fall. He was one of four scholars from 12 contestants representing six southern states. Randolph a VMI football guard aims to study philosophy politics and economics at Oxford.
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Oxford University
England
Rhodes
Robert C. Randolph IV
Brodnax
Brunswick County
Virginia Militarynstitute
Randolph
VMI
Oxford
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Washington
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William E. Carlton
Seat Pleasant
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Pasadena
A&p
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Essex
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Denton
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