Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offer something besides lower prices." What they are promising is better service, though volume is still their stock in trade, and they sometimes seemed to be offering 25% off for rudeness. Big discounters such as the East's E. J. Korvette, Inc., New York's Friendly Frost chain, and Chicago-based Goodman's Community Discount Stores are opening new branches with piped-in music and fancier displays to shuck off "that warehouse look," adding such customer lures as charge accounts and home delivery. In the eight-story branch he will soon open on Manhattan's Fifth...
...choice; 2) undercapitalized discounters who cannot afford to spend for service and a broad variety of merchandise; 3) stores whose owners are basically real estate operators leasing department space to individual merchants who operate under no central buying or pricing policy. Big Discounter Gerald 0. Kaye, chairman of Friendly Frost, estimates that at least eight leased-space stores on Long Island will fold within three years. Says he: "I hate to be a vulture, but I'm just waiting for them to fail. Then I'll pick them...
...Ointment, it was "for Man and Beast." Clark Stanley's Snake Oil Liniment was promoted by the slaughter of hundreds of rattlesnakes at the Chicago World's Fair, but contained no rattlesnake oil. "Used external only," it was for "rheumatism, neuralgia, sciatica, lame back, lumbago, contracted muscles, frost bites, chill blains, bruises, and sore throat...
...abstractionism and that the U.S. went farthest with it. Or as Bryan Robertson, director of London's Whitechapel Gallery, puts it: "British painting is just part of the international style, and the only English thing about it is its limitation.'' His view of Lanyon. Vaughan. Frost and Kitchens: "Jolly dreary." But that is just one opinion, and Britain's art row bristles with contrary judgments...
...claims. Abstractionist Lanyon denounces current French painting as dull, and adds: "New York has a sense of bigness. We needn't paint big. We haven't got the great land mass behind us. British art is emerging from limbo. It's individual, not a school." Painter Frost says: "The ruination of British art was the bloody Establishment. It was getting to be a bloody ladies' watercolor circle. Now that we've got some ordinary blokes in it, maybe we'll make a noise...