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Even before he joined Sears, Roebuck in 1956 as a salesman in Madison, Wisc., there was little doubt that Edward Brennan would find a home in the company. Working for Sears was a tradition in Brennan's family: both his parents were buyers for the firm, as were a grandfather and two uncles. Brennan, however, rose much farther through the ranks of the largest U.S. retailer. When Chairman Edward Telling, 66, announced last week that he will retire at year's end, it came as no surprise that he named Brennan, Sears' president since 1984, as his successor...
...Brennan, 51, will head a firm whose core business, merchandising, has been in a slump. Sears' profits sagged 25% in the second quarter, and third- quarter earnings are likely to be down. Brennan is counting on a credit card that Sears launched last summer to help reverse that trend. Called Discover, the card enables holders to get auto loans, invest in savings instruments and, of course, to shop at Sears. Brennan expects to sign up at least 10 million subscribers. Retailing, meanwhile, still runs in his family. Watching Brennan's progress closely will be his brother Bernard, the president...
...pair of 5-to-4 decisions, the court ruled that officials in Grand Rapids and New York City may not send public school teachers into parochial schools to provide remedial or accelerated classes for disadvantaged or bright children. Justice William Brennan, who wrote both majority opinions, concluded in the Grand Rapids case that by physically entering parochial schools, public school teachers are supplying not only a direct subsidy but also that "crucial symbolic link between government and religion" that the Constitution does not allow. The New York ruling will affect parochial school participation in a 20-year-old federal education...
...newest religion cases, the court forcefully reaffirmed its commitment to the Lemon test, which makes three demands on any religiously oriented legislation: that it have a secular purpose, that it neither advance nor inhibit religion and that it avoid "excessive entanglement" between government and religion. Justice Brennan's application of the test in the New York school case left officials in what dissenting Justice William Rehnquist called a "catch-22." City school officials argued that they took special care not to advance religion by closely monitoring their remedial public school teachers. But this very monitoring process, Brennan concluded, created excessive...
...away, Hollywood has just begun filming a movie based on the game. The first clues fans will want, of course, are who plays the familiar players: Lesley Ann Warren (Miss Scarlett), Martin Mull (Colonel Mustard), Madeline Kahn (Mrs. White), Michael McKean (Mr. Green), Christopher Lloyd (Professor Plum) and Eileen Brennan (Mrs. Peacock). These six suspects are joined in the movie by six new characters led by Butler Tim Curry. The plot is said to contain enough hints for figuring out who did what where. But until Clue is released early next year, nobody is squealing -- certainly not the actors...