Word: finding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everyone had different ideas on what was wrong. Some oldtimers at Butler Bros, thought Retailer Herberger had neglected the wholesale end of the business, which had been a moneymaker. Others thought he had scrambled wholesale & retail together until nobody could find his way through either. Herberger blamed his troubles on deadwood in the company -and hacked away. So many officers and employees left that gagsters called Butler Bros, the Montgomery Ward annex. Finally, aging Thomas Freeman, who was boosted to chairman when Herberger replaced him as president, quit in disgust...
...Bespectacled, garden-loving Bert Prall was a tougher man than he looked. Before resigning as a Montgomery Ward vice president in 1946, he had stood up for 15 years under Sewell Avery-and had long been manager of hard lines. As boss of money-losing Butler Bros., Prall might find it was still hard lines...
...could not retreat into the canyon, for behind them were even more terrifying Venusians, the three-eyed, four-legged, two-fingered triops noctivi-vans. What would Ham do? Readers will find the answer in A Martian Odyssey, a posthumous collection of Stanley Weinbaum's "science-fiction" stories...
Lunch in Munich. Foote's Handbook for Spies is an unpretentious, understated account of the job he did for his Russian employers. Readers looking for cloak-&-dagger excitement will not find it here. But the lack of phony tension and climax gives the book its own quiet tone of truth. Writes Foote: "The only excitement a spy is likely to have is his last, when he is finally run to earth." Foote was run to earth just once, fortunately for him in neutral Switzerland...
...daughter of a poor Yorkshire vicar. Not even for a girl as lively, as pretty, as independent, as good and as beautiful as Arabella Tallant. Naturally she wanted to marry none of her awkward provincial suitors, so Mamma hustled her off to her wealthy London godmother who undertook to find Bella a rich husband. When the coach broke down on the way, Bella sought shelter at the nearest house, which turned out to be the country home of Mr. Robert Beaumaris, the handsomest, the most polished, the most excitingly built, the most sought after, and, of course...