Word: lofting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wiry, crew-cut Gene Ferkauf (the name is pronounced Fur-cowf and means "sell" in Yiddish) started out in a Manhattan loft 14 years ago with a total capital of $4.000. Today he rules a fast-growing retailing empire that consists of 17 stores in the Northeastern area between Hartford, Conn., and Harrisburg, Pa. In the past nine months alone, Korvette's profits have risen 81% to $4,268,000, and the company's sales in fiscal 1962 will amount to $230 million. All this Ferkauf has accomplished by pursuing a business philosophy that...
...luck; a number of coffee houses have opened up in the last several years. Charles St., with three houses within as many blocks, bids fair to compete with Greenwich Village's Macdougal St. There is folk singing at Golden Vanity, in Kenmore Square, and at The Loft, on Charles St. Probably some of the others will have entertainers during the summer, but you should check before you go. Some of the others are the Turk's Head, Cafe Yana, The Place, and the Gallery. Charles St. is no North Beach but the prices are reasonable...
...people died. Near Delaware Bay, Mrs. John Waters pulled her husband's head above water while six of their eight children drowned in their submerged car. When a Coast Guard amphibious duck overturned at Beach Haven Inlet, N.J., its nine occupants linked arms in waist-deep water, but loft. waves broke the chain, dragged two middle-aged couples to their deaths. Mrs. Ralph Poynton, 82, refused help as water leaped at the foundation of her Rehoboth Beach home, told rescuers: "I've got plenty of food, and there's a coal fire going in the kitchen range...
...Biggest sailboat in the show is Pearson's fiber-glass sloop, the Alberg 35. It has a 30-h.p. auxiliary engine, a loft. beam, draws 5 ft. Price...
...loft" somewhere in Harvard Square where poor, harried 'Cliffies may eat their box lunches and buy coffee appears to be the compromise result of a meeting between President Bunting of Radcliffe and a delegation of girls dissatisfied with present lunch conditions...