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DEPARTMENT-STORE MERGER will push the Associated Dry Goods chain (1954 sales: $154.4 million) out to the West Coast. Associated, which now owns Manhattan's Lord & Taylor plus stores in Buffalo, Newark, Minneapolis, Baltimore and Louisville, will take over Southern California's J. W. Robinson Co. stores in a cash and stock deal...
This is a first novel from the familiar outskirts of suburban discontent where the personalities are sometimes as split-level as the houses. Novelist Sloan Wilson, 35, English instructor at the University of Buffalo, is a small mirror of J. P. Marquand and he has written a kind of Sincerely, Willis Wayde in reverse. His hero is a thirtyish young man who rather naively decides that the only way he can achieve inner peace and fiscal happiness is by selling his soul to a large Manhattan corporation, and starts to do so only to find that...
...Buffalo a band of hoodlums broke into School 69 last week, emptied fire extinguishers over the auditorium's seats, smashed a snare drum through a bass drum, broke two large ceramic vases, slashed a movie screen to ribbons, desecrated a new American flag, broke both skylights in the gym, and in general indulged in a wholesale orgy of ink splashing, paint splattering, light-bulb smashing. Estimated damage: $1,000. What worried Buffalo authorities most: P.S. 69 is the twelfth school to be attacked since last February...
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...year-old daughter of show people, who until nine years ago had never had a day of formal schooling in her life. Then, after her discharge from the WACs in 1946, she took some special training at Endicott, N.Y.'s Harpur College, two semesters later enrolled in Buffalo's Hutchinson-Central High School and earned a diploma in one year. In June 1954, after another hitch in the WACs, she entered Syracuse University as a sociology major, this week graduated with a creditable "B" average. Total time it took her to get a B.A. after starting from scratch...