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...eleven friends in five weeks rounded up enough books, cigarettes, candy, peanuts and soap to fill 3,500 cartons. Boston's Christmas Festival Committee, which is usually preoccupied with decorating the Common in late fall, raised $3,000 to buy gift packages from the city's fanciest grocer, S.S. Pierce. In Richmond, a neighborhood civic association passed the hat, bought 1,656 fruitcakes. A Charleston, W. Va., record-store owner asked teen-agers for their old records, was deluged with 3,300 in one week...
...save Daddy money because earrings can no longer fall down side walk gratings or get left behind in telephone booths (what woman leaves a regular earring on her telephone ear while calling?). Moreover, they argue - with some reason - that pierced earrings are by far the most attractive ones available. Fanciest are the ethereal antique candelabra and gypsy gewgaws, but most popular are the simple gold, pearl or jade "buttons" - perhaps be cause they do not catch on sweaters...
...emporium (reputed to be the city's most profitable), and the other floors are hidden behind a huge bill board, which reads "This Is Macy's -The World's Largest Store." Macy's leases it for one of the world's fanciest billboard prices...
...guided the store through a new era of change and crisis in retailing. The rise of discounters, the flight of customers to suburbia and the thickening traffic snarls have hurt all downtown stores, but they particularly challenged Macy's aging Herald Square store. The store was never the fanciest bazaar in Manhattan, and it has also become outmoded: less than 50% of its area can be devoted to selling space v. 75% in newer stores. Its sales, while huge, have barely changed in ten years. The store rings up a quarter of the Macy chain's total business...
According to tentative architectural plans, the new motor hotel may also be Cambridge's fanciest. Above a ground floor and six floors of garage space, a terraced swimming pool will cater to sun-worshippers. On top of that, a slim tower with about 250 rooms will rise far into...