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...Hugh still has his backers, including Carter Hawley Hale Stores, Inc., which invested $68 million in the House of Fraser two years ago in exchange for a 20% interest; the company also owns Neiman-Marcus in Dallas and Bergdorf Goodman of New York. From his Los Angeles office last week, Chairman Edward W. Carter said he felt "very sorry" about Fraser's personal problems but believed they had not harmed the business. Said he: "Fraser runs the company, and he does it well...
...Irreverent and Thoroughly Encompassing History of Almost Everything," by Robert Muir, has become the best selling book at Hale's store in Wellesley. "If you don't know anything about literature, you won't understand it," he says, adding, "It is such a good book...
...Hale says students who shop at the Hathaway shop have spent increasing amounts of time upstairs in the children's book department...
...Granfa Grig," and "Mother Goose Rhymes Without Reason" is one of the most popular children's books he sells. "I don't think children would even understand what this book is about," Hale says, "because it mentions people that only adults know about...
...Rich Man Poor Man" has been a big seller at the Hathaway store recently, along with "Sybil,"--a work that has experienced a marked increase in popularity since a TV series by the same name began this fall. Hale says he does not understand why students are buying these books, explaining "these are suburban house wife books and I am very surprised that students are buying them...