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...ahead of record 1957. In Chicago subzero weather held December sales well below last year almost up to the final week. Then the weather and the customers' sales resistance thawed out together. Vice President J. Chalmers O'Brien of the Loop's 104-year-old Carson Pirie Scott reported that the Monday before Christmas, sales were the highest for any shopping day ever, and "by quite a margin." Near the North Shore, the Old Orchard shopping center said that its tenant Marshall Field "had terrific 1957 figures to beat this year, but they...
...slouch compared to a great many natural-history writers. Such a one is Britain's John Crompton, who has proved once again that a true passion-even a love of man for insect-is the substance of literature. Displaying a talent that recalls Rachel (The Sea Around Us) Carson, Apiarist Crompton has in the past written engagingly on the ant, the hunting wasp and the spider. But evidently the bee is his true poetic faith-and the bee in his bonnet is as good as a sonnet...
Divorced. By John P. Marquand, 65, novelist whose current bestseller, Women and Thomas Harrow, concerns a writer who has three unsuccessful marriages: Adelaide Hooker Marquand, 55, his second wife (sister of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III); after 21 years of marriage, three children; in Carson City...
...mother-in-law, Ason Tso, near Many Farms, 150 miles east of the Grand Canyon. Mary Grey-Eyes, 35, a broad-faced, well-built mother of two, seemed fit despite chronic gall-bladder disease. But one Saturday afternoon, as towering Black Mountain's shadow reached across Carson Mesa to the comfortless, slab-sided hogan, the pain in Mary's side got worse than ever. Soon she was nauseated and feverish; then her headache became unbearable...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Comedian Jack Carson, who snapped to dramatic attention as Gooper in the movie version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, plays a reserve officer, retreaded for the Korean war, involved in a bitter tangle with a martinet colonel...