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...home is finished. Our nine grandchildren are close by, we're finally coming out of our money problems. Hubert has never been happier. On Christmas Day one of the kids said to me, 'Dad is much calmer. He listens better.' " Muriel Humphrey has changed...
...Midwest, told from different points of view and from different narrative modes, is at times a haunting reminder of The Sound and the Fury. In many respects, Woiwode's story of the Neumiller family, beginning with great-grandfather, and continuing through three more generations to the contemporary great-grandchildren, recounts the disintegration of a family in the Midwest. The great-grandfather made his living as a farmer, his son was an honest farmer, and whenever members of the succeeding generations lose touch with themselves, they return to the land and the honest work there...
Other retailers look on Bloomingdale's as the store to watch. Margaret Dadian, chief buyer for Kay Campbell Stores in Evanston, Ill., says of her frequent trips to New York: "I'd miss seeing my grandchildren, but I'd never miss seeing Bloomingdale's." Nordstrom, a company that operates 17 stores in Washington, Oregon and Alaska, makes a point of sending buyers on pilgrimages to Bloomingdale's. "It is a very flexible store," says Merchandiser Jack McMillan. "It's quick to see and develop new lines." In Boston, once-staid Jordan Marsh has patterned part of itself after Bloomingdale...
Sybaritic Swath. He was going into the Sahara, Hassan explained, "so that my children and grandchildren may take pride in inheriting a real crown and a true scepter." They also stand to inherit Hassan's fortune (estimated at more than $500 million) and his eight palaces, four of them with golf courses designed by Robert Trent Jones. When Hassan dies, he expects to be ensconced in the mausoleum he has had built for himself in Rabat, a $7.5 million structure that looks like a cross between a pagoda and the Taj Mahal. Not bad for a onetime playboy prince...
...Franco was a man of rigid decorum, methodical habit and deep Christian piety; his orderly days included regular attendance at Mass and midnight recitation of the rosary with his wife, the former Carmen Polo y Martinez Valdés. His few moments of relaxation were spent with his six grandchildren by his only child Carmencita, or in painting. Seascapes were his favorite subject...