Word: coast-to-coast
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Died. Fred Lazarus Jr., 88, retailing wizard who started as a collar salesman in his family's Columbus store and became organizer and, in 1945, president of Federated Department Stores, Inc., a coast-to-coast retailing combine that now includes Bloomingdale's of New York, Filene's of Boston, Bullock's of California, and the original F. & R. Lazarus store in Columbus; of a heart attack; in Cincinnati...
This year the Middle Atlantic Division for Women's Intercollegiate Sailing is hosting the nationals. The meet will have entries from all the regional conferences across the U.S. Last year the Harvard Yacht Club hosted the coast-to-coast competition...
...time he wished. Paley could sell national advertising spots without clearance fears; although this led to the domination of a large part of the broadcasting schedule by powerful commercial interests, it also afforded a great opportunity for original programming in the unsponsored time zones--allowing the off-beat a coast-to-coast audience. It is then that the network news departments were established (curtailing previous agreements with press services), along with the "distinguished" tradition of radio poetry readings, kitchen sink dramas, vaudevillian "special events," and Meet-the-Press-type panel shows...
...produce last week's tie-up only because Congress and the Administration have meekly refused to formulate a clear-cut rail-labor policy. Behind each of the many railroad "crises" of the past few years has been the Federal Government's failure to decide whether a coast-to-coast railroad strike constitutes a national emergency. If it does not, then Congress should allow railroad labor and management, like those in any other industry, to use their ultimate weapons, the strike and the lockout, without federal interruption. If it does, then the Government should devise a plan...
...Dick Gibson of the title, a seriocomic straight man in a burlesque mythology of mass culture, wants to go all the way. But not vertically (to a network presidency), or even horizontally to become one of those tympanic coast-to-coast voices that always "seem to speak from the frontiers of commitment." Instead, like the wrestler in Elkin's first novel (Boswell) and the department store owner in his second (A Bad Man), Gibson craves the all-points dimension of human need...