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Hooks and tri-captain Sam Butler represent the Crimson's hopes in the sprints, where both Princeton and Yale look strong--Yale's Harry Davidson has run a 7.3 60-yd. hurdles. "We're all pretty much at the same time," Hooks explains, "and it'll just be who's at the tape...
Until after the end of World War II, Bloomingdale's was a fairly conventional store. Then I.E. Davidson, the store's boss from 1947 to 1967, began the big move. He dropped major appliances. Later Traub dropped other items that most competing stores carried: drugs, cameras, records. They sold well but did not earn much profit. In their place went goods aimed at people who had money to spend on more than boring necessities. The result in microcosm: Bloomingdale's sells no men's razors, but it does sell bloc of duck liver with green pepper...
...first Bloomingdale's had difficulty persuading foreign suppliers to go along with its ideas. About 15 years ago, Davidson, a discriminating gourmet, complained that the Roquefort cheese then being sold by Bloomingdale's was too salty. He sent Bob Gumport, head of the Delicacies Shop, to the Roquefort caves in France to see what could be done. Nothing could be; an official of one of the leading producers asked, "Why should we change the taste for Bloomingdale's?" By 1965, though, Bloomingdale's muscle was being felt. Traub wanted the colors changed on Droste's chocolate packaging, and he sent...
Sandow really is "bad." He acquired a certain notoriety two years ago by riding his Harley-Davidson motorcycle into the Kirkland House courtyard late one night, and then nearly hitting then-Master Arthur Smithies on his way out. Once back on the street he outraced pursuing police cruisers though Cambridge, running several red lights on the way. "I never got caught." he says...
...years. So, in an upcoming television special titled Ann-Margret Smith, the pair will say their vows once more, this time with the groom in top hat and gray cutaway and the bride in white. That done, they will cycle into the sunset, tin cans trailing behind their Harley-Davidson. "Weddings are more fun the second time around, especially with the same man," claimed the again bride-to-be. Said Smith: "Maybe that's something Liz Taylor would understand...