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Since they were first exported to the U.S. 26 years ago, the tanklike sedans and boxy station wagons have endeared themselves to L.L. Bean-wearing university professors and affluent suburbanites. Today the safe and sensible Volvo has never been more popular. In a year when other auto manufacturers are struggling, Volvo's American sales are up 12.8%, and the car has passed Volkswagen as the bestselling European import. Last week the Volvo's proud Swedish parent announced that its earnings nearly doubled during the first nine months of this year, to $257 million, as sales increased...
...Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972): Marvelous. The first three-quarters of the picture are classic. We never came to grips with the ending though. I loved that character...
...least one TV executive decided that the sound and fury did indeed signify nothing. Al Flanagan, station manager of NBC's Atlanta affiliate, WXIA, cut away from the network coverage to air a 1972 movie, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean. Said Flanagan: "The election was being force-fed to viewers...
...pioneer merchandise houses were actually led by seed companies and, curiously enough, sporting-goods retailers. Their prosperous successors in the fitness era are such companies as Seattle's Eddie Bauer and Orvis, in Manchester, Vt. The most famous of all came along in 1912 when Leon Leonwood Bean started selling his rubber-bottomed hunting shoes from a Main Street address in Freeport...
Today millions of pilgrims flock to Freeport to visit L.L. Bean's one and only retail outlet. To the catalogue faithful it is a shrine to a Yankee mystique woven from images of integrity, good value and handcrafted quality. Bean's merchandise is not necessarily expensive ($18 for its best button-down striped Oxford-cloth shirts), and it is not elegant. Over the years a kind of reverse chic has attached itself to its sturdy Yankee clothes and shoes: its $40 woodsman's pants, "all wool and a yard wide," say, or the $73 sheepskin-lined boots...