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...course, Lazarus, 61, the son of Fred Lazarus Jr., who helped found Federated 46 years ago, and Federated's President Harold Krensky, a former newspaperman, exercise far more authority than the chart shows. Still, Federated has kept its headquarters staff to 450?out of a corporate total of about 80,000 employees...
Headquarters' job is largely to advise the division managers: Lazarus and Krensky constantly tour the Federated circuit. In the spring of 1974, for example, they reported that Federated's staff of 40 forecasters and market researchers saw a severe recession coming, and warned all the stores to hold down inventory. Result: not only did Federated's branches avoid the glut of unsold goods that plagued competitors last Christmas, but they had the money and warehouse space to start buying again in early 1975. While other stores were holding distress sales, says Lazarus, "we were able to get back into...
While Christ may in fact never have signed his name-maybe he used a cross -a daring 19th century French forger sold spurious signatures of Mary Magdalene, Pontius Pilate and Lazarus (after his resurrection). Some of the great forgeries have acquired genuine value, notably a play purported to be by Shakespeare that was "discovered" by 18year-old William Henry Ireland in 1795 and was actually produced in London by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (the first-night audience howled it down...
Sometimes Plath's reading gives these poems a meaning that appears to be unintentional. During the climactic lines of "Lady Lazarus," a poem about the poet's repeated suicide attempts, her usually well-modulated voice seems to shake involuntarily...
...takes control of the situation, her conversational voice a little tamer than her reading voice but her imperious, arrogant manner just as fascinating and repellent. She sounds much older than 30 somehow, as if she had reached the last of the nine lives she endows herself with in "Lady Lazarus...