Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years he has run a store in Osakis, Minn. Bob, who was born over the store and clerked in it during his school years, worked for Butler's Minneapolis house and became a Butler customer himself in 1927 when, at 22, he opened his own store in St. Cloud, Minn...
...departments for a day. He also had a deft touch with employees. He bought each one a cake on his birthday, gave brief parties in the store and held ten-minute get-togethers each morning to plan selling strategy. Bob's technique paid off: his St. Cloud store sells 3½ times the national average per square foot for stores in its class. Last year his small-town chain grossed $8,000,000. Says he: "All you have to do is watch your inventories...
...also impressed, and pleased, some rank-&-filers. One of them was Chief Red Cloud of the Sioux Indians. At Cheyenne, the Chief had made Dewey a member of the tribe, presenting him, in a speech in Sioux, with a red-dyed, turkey-feather headdress. Princess Blue Water had translated: "We're a-namin' him Brave Heart. We're for him for President and with what he's a-doin' he's got to be brave...
...Overseas Airlines transport unloaded 30 dogs from Frankfurt, Germany and 97 reptiles from London, including twelve adders, three asps, four viperine snakes, 50 slowworms and two sandboas. On another plane from the Philippines, en route to The Bronx Zoo, came eleven tree shrews, three monkey-eating eagles, 14 giant cloud rats and 30 tarsiers. The tarsier (TIME, March 3), an insect-eating cousin of the monkey, is smaller than a squirrel, weighs only half a pound, has long fingers tipped by adhesive discs. Banjo-eyed is no word for a tarsier; its brown orbs suggest bass drums, at least...
...aunt-by-marriage of Egypt's King Farouk, was on relief in Manhattan. She told all, after breaking her shoulder in a fall. It seems that in 1907, as Actress Ola Jane Humphries, she had married Farouk's uncle, retired to live "on a rose-tinted cloud." The cloud burst in 1918, when the Prince died. The Egyptian Government grabbed her husband's $14 million estate and all her jewels. In 14 years of suits, the Princess had acquired nothing but a viewpoint: "I think anyone makes a great mistake in giving up a successful career...