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MONTGOMERY WARD, which has been busy modernizing its old stores since President John A. Barr took over from Sewell Avery last May, is now planning to build new retail stores, the first in 15 years. Barr has already spent $86 million to brighten the chain's 566 retail outlets and add 33 mail order offices, succeeded last year in reversing Ward's four year sales slump. 1955 sales: $970 million...
...upsetting favored Yale and thereby avenging last Saturday's 82 to 69 defeat at the hands of the Elis this evening, the varsity five can capitalize on its last chance to brighten an otherwise lacklustre season. The game will begin at 8:30 p.m. in Yale's Payne Whitney Gymnasium...
This loyalty to a course sometimes tends to make it as much of a home to the student as his dorm. The Planning Department, for example, has painted full-sized figures on the walls to brighten up its drawing room, and the Architecture Department even kept a pet man-eating fish until the S.P.C.A. removed it. Occasionally one finds groceries or a radio on the desks indicating that the classroom is more than a place of study...
...Roth's bestselling autobiography of an alcoholic, "than to curse the darkness." It may be so. In any case, there is not much sense in lighting a smudge pot. This picture, based on the book, is perhaps not so murky as all that, but it certainly will not brighten the corner where...
...Snake Pit will brighten the day of few who see it. But as a significant social warning, the sacrifice is well worth-while. A stop-over at the Casablanca after the show is not recommended...