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Across the U.S., from Boston's Jordan Marsh to San Francisco's Emporium, the Christmas push is on, and specialized holiday departments are already humming. Among all the Christmas catalogues descending on charge-account customers, Dallas' Neiman-Marcus last week mailed out a catalogue that, as usual, seeks to top 'em all on how to overspend. This year there is an Ampex console that contains a home TV camera, a color receiver, and a video tape recorder that stores TV films. Price...
HAROLDS CLUB OR BUST! read signs plastered all over the U.S. West, luring millions of Americans to the biggest gambling joint in Reno. So profitable was the lavish emporium of slot machines, roulette, and blackjack tables that the original outlay of $600 by its owners, a thrifty family of Vermonters named Smith, paid off $16,675,000 when they sold last week to a Manhattan syndicate. Still spinning the club's wheel of chance as manager: Harold S. Smith, son of the founder and author of an autobiography aptly titled I Want to Quit Winners...
Yesterday's opening of a new gallery at the Club Mt. Auburn threatens to arouse the most profound disillusionment among the old patrons of Harvard's own jazz emporium. From now on, the Club's curtains will be thrown back daily at 10 a.m., the lights will be turned on, and devotees will be subjected to the awful truth that 47's wall are white, not black, that there aren't really any rates scurrying about, and that the romance of dirt and darkness is all an illusion--there is actually a certain repelling sterility about the place...
...bigger store in Phoenix in 1870, sold out to establish another in Prescott; at one time or another, there have been Goldwater trading posts in such boom-or-bust settlements as Tombstone, Seymour and Bisbee, where the town's first lynch mob stopped at Mike's emporium to borrow a suitable length of rope. He retired to California in 1885, leaving the stores to his three sons, Morris, Henry and Baron...
...morning to raging public brawls at night. Usually an affable man, Mailer became morose and belligerent. In Provincetown last summer he was jailed after a fight with police that began when he hailed a prowl car under the impression that it was a taxi. In Birdland, a Manhattan jazz emporium, two weeks ago there was another brush with the law after an argument over a $7.60 check. "I never know how he's going to react," says Actor Anthony Franciosa, a friend. "Sometimes he tries to provoke me into an argument. Other times he's incredibly gentle...