Word: besness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...items on all shopping lists were hats. This year they were big, beflowered, befeathered (see cut), and they cost a pretty penny. Boston's swank C. Crawford Hollidge, Ltd. did a rush business on ostrich-plumed jobs at $65. Chicago's Bes-Ben sold all the floppy, fancy tuscan straws it could turn out at $52.75 and up. "Mmmm, but you'll look delicious," burbled Manhattan's Arnold Constable over a "high-crown cartwheel . . . with pastel blooms encased in spun, sugary net," all for $45. Macy's offered an open-crowned straw loaded with daisies...
Poorest bigtime baseball: ham-acted by has-beens and never-will-bes and applauded by a record-breaking 11,708,642 uncomplaining customers jammed into the nation's ball parks...
...male needs proof that women's hats are crazy-and that men get stuck for them-Benjamin Benedict Greenfield of Chicago is the man to see for evidence. At his Bes-Ben hat shop on Chicago's plush North Michigan Avenue, he has sold hats with everything on them from dish mops to jewels at a minimum price of $37.75, and an alltime high of $1,000 (complete with an emerald and ruby brooch). Last week, suave, dark-eyed Ben wowed the ladies again with a fashion show for Chicago's pet society charity, St. Luke...
...Greenfield got his start 27 years ago in a $5-a-week selling job for a shopkeeper friend of his mother's. Three years later he opened his own shop with his sister (the "Bess" of Bes-Ben, now married and out of the business). Two years after that he had gone from one employe and a $35 rent bill...
...Long and tough war Bes before us, a period trying and testing us; the peace will be shaped by the events the, war and by each one's sacrifices victory. Victory in itself will be a tremendous achievement; survival in freedom, unachievable without complete concentration of united nation on it, will be a cause for grateful rejoicing. But beyond that, victory will offer the opportunity for building an international under of law and peace...