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Led by Mendell, the gang last December broke into a vacant building near a police station in a seedy section of Chicago's Near North Side. With acetylene torches, they burned their way into a jewelry store next door, used an electronic device to circumvent a burglar alarm and stole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something Fishy in Chicago | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

The higher the price, and the better the quality, the more they are buying. Furs and jewels are selling as if buyers thought minks were becoming an endangered species and South Africa's mines were giving out. Reports John Eyler, merchandising manager for Oregon's Meier and Frank department stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Customer Holds the Key: The Customer Holds the Key | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

For more than three decades the label, familiar to people willing to splurge on furs or lingerie, sports shirts or neckties, has been synonymous with quality, style, high price and, above all, French refinement and good taste. At the same time, Christian Dior has developed into a booming international company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Dior's Biggest Summer Sale | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

Rogers specializes in memorable headlines. Word of mouth recently enticed Vidal Sassoon, Inc., the Los Angeles-based hairstyling and hair-care products business, to offer Rogers a $4 million account if he could come up with a snappy head. Rogers' creation: "If you don't look good, we don't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Advertising: the Best One-Liners | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

Provided that, of course, one has survived the Christmas journey into that country without having to exit through the underworld of dunning creditors, debt-consolidation loans and bankruptcy court. Over the past month or so, the morning mail has been reviving unmerry Yuletide recollections in millions of households, as the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: MERCHANTS OF DEBT | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

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