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...line retailer was founded in 1872 in Chicago by Aaron Montgomery Ward, a salesman who presciently anticipated the potential in mail-order sales to farmers. Later that year he published the first comprehensive general- merchandise catalog, 22 years before Richard Sears did. It was one of the last times Montgomery Ward was ahead of Sears...
...gifts to feed an addiction for applause; Keller very nearly makes it to the top in the State Department before he cracks under the weight of his past; Gilbert starts out like John McEnroe and ends up resembling Paul Newman in Exodus; and Lambros outpreppies the Lands' End catalog. Everybody pays a high price for success, except Eliot, who pays for his failures. To compare The Class with The Group, Mary McCarthy's 1963 best seller of eight Vassar girls and how they grew, is to measure the change in public taste. McCarthy treated her Ivy maidens with defoliating...
Sally Lawrence, a spokesman for the Federal Communications Commission, told The Crimson she had looked at the Opportunity Calling catalog, and, in her opinion, "you would have to make an exhorbitant amount of calls for it to be of any use." AT&T's Terry Romano countered, saying that $5 credits for Levi's jeans were among the items of possible interest to students. However, Stan Sesser, west coast editor of Consumer Reports, called the service "a real hassle" and said it was pointless to "buy a more expensive telephone service in order to get a cheaper blender." With...
...charges that Veliotis and investigators have made against the company, none yet proved in court, constitute a catalog of almost every type of chicanery that critics say is rampant in the defense industry. Among the allegations...
...decent marriage in America." Her bright and handsome husband Michael, a professor at a Massachusetts college, is due to spend an academic year teaching in France. Ordinarily, the wife and the children, Peter, 9, and Sarah, 6, would go with . him. But Anne has been asked to write the catalog for a new exhibit of the works of Caroline Watson (1864-1938), an American artist whose once lustrous reputation could now stand some repolishing. The job requires regular trips to Manhattan and periods of peace and quiet about the Foster household. Michael flies off to France, and the first sitter...