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Wisse, the Peretz professor of Yiddish literature, is in Atlanta today and will deliver two speeches at Emory University tomorrow, according to her husband, Leonard Wisse...
...fall, among them Kaufmann's in Pittsburgh, Pa.; Filene's in Boston; Strawbridge's in Philadelphia; Foley's in Houston; Famous-Barr in St. Louis, Mo.; and Robinsons-May in Southern California. Federated has already renamed South Florida's Burdine's, Bon Marché in the Northwest, Rich's in Atlanta and Lazarus in Ohio. Only May's Lord & Taylor chain has retained its name--and it is up for sale...
...trickiest maneuver will be balancing fashion merchandising with regional tastes. Macy's needs to include national brands like Tommy Hilfiger and Ralph Lauren to pull in traffic but in a mix that will appeal to customers on a local level. "What fashion means in Miami is quite different from Atlanta," Lundgren says. Federated has set up seven new buying offices in different cities to merchandise locally and has installed a national logistics database that allows buyers to distribute merchandise more efficiently; slow sellers are marked down, and popular items are restocked faster...
...Alabama, King met her preacher husband while she was a graduate student at the New England Conservatory of Music. Following the Rev. King's assassination in 1968, she sought to sustain her husband's legacy-largely through the King Center for Non-Violent Social Change, which she founded in Atlanta-while pushing for gender and racial equality under the banner of the civil-rights movement...
...Atlanta...