Word: manhattan
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However the approach might be categorized, it works. In the past seven years, Bloomingdale's Manhattan store alone has increased sales by more than 50%, to about $160 million, v. the same for Macy's Herald Square store (with twice the selling space) and $85 million for Gimbel's 33rd Street store. By the retail accountant's measurement, Bloomingdale's gets $350 of sales this year out of each square foot of floor space?about four times the average for all U.S. department stores. Profits are not reported separately, but Federated has consistently kept as after-tax profit about...
Bloomingdale's is clearly one of a kind." Among customers there are carpings about high prices, crowds and service. Heiress-Actress Dina Merrill likes the store's ice cream and housewares but buys no furniture there; she says the prices are too high. Sniffs Ilene Barth, editor of a Manhattan weekly newspaper: "People who go to Bloomingdale's don't trust their own taste...
...would not permit Bloomingdale's executives to go to China outside trade-fair time to argue. Nor would they even answer the letters in which Levine suggested new designs. But two months ago, a delegation from China's National Light Industry Group toured Bloomingdale's in Manhattan, and the leader was so impressed that he arranged for Levine to visit Peking. There, factory officials showed Levine samples of new products based on the designs he had mailed...
Died. Dr. Detlev Bronk, 78, former president of both Johns Hopkins and Rockefeller Universities and founding father of American biophysics; after a brief illness; in Manhattan. An advocate of curriculum reform, in the early 1950s Bronk inaugurated the Hopkins Plan, under which qualified undergraduates were allowed to take courses at the university's graduate school. He transformed the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research into a university by adding a graduate program that gave no grades and conferred only doctorates. He staffed it with a brilliant faculty that outnumbered the student body by 2 to 1 when he retired...
Without doubt, the show of Mark di Suvero's sculpture in (and out of) Manhattan's Whitney Museum is one of the biggest enterprises ever to involve a living artist. The works−65 in all, ranging from tabletops to steel monsters five stories high−are distributed in parks and public places all over New York City's five boroughs. For weeks, cranes were busy from Yankee Stadium to Central Park's Conservatory Garden, hoisting the ponderous components into place. The catalogue lists more than 90 administrators, engineers, city officials, industrialists and artists who pooled...