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...only way to learn the retailing business is over the counter," Philip M. Hawley is fond of saying. Hawley, 48, first practiced what he now preaches while dishing up sundaes behind the counter of his Portland, Ore., ice-cream store. Now, as president of Broadway-Hale Stores, Inc., he directs a retailing empire that includes Neiman-Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman, Holt, Renfrew, Capwell's, The Emporium, Weinstock's and the Walden Book...
CATHERINE HAWLEY BLECKINGER Meriden, Conn...
...running more than 8% ahead of a year ago but Sears managers cannot pick out any special items as being responsible for most of the gain. "The consumer seems to be spending across the board, and that is when you can count on a good Christmas," says Philip Hawley, president of Broadway-Hale Stores, which owns Bergdorf Goodman's in Manhattan, the six Neiman-Marcus outlets, and 52 stores in California. Many retailers estimate that Christmas sales will run 8% to 10% ahead of last year. Some store managers seem to think that they can sell almost anything...
...SPEAK NO TREASON by ROSEMARY HAWLEY JARMAN 576 pages. Little, Brown...
...Speak No Treason is a king-size gothic romance by Rosemary Hawley Jarman, who writes medieval English almost as gorgeous as Charles Reade's in Cloister and the Hearth. Her pages are dotted with sarplers, live-lodes, oxters, and muster-develers. 'Zooks if anybody knows what they mean; 'zounds if they aren't fun anyway. So is her version of Richard. She sees him as a 15th century Bobby Kennedy, the runt of a glittering litter who as a youth is devoted to his glamorous older brother, King Edward IV, and as Edward's successor...