Word: marts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...novel chronicles the postcombat experiences of four World War II infantrymen: Mart Winch, John Strange, Bobby Prell and Marion Landers. All noncoms from the same outfit, three of them wounded, the fourth ill with the same kind of congestive heart condition that killed Jones, they ship home from the Pacific to a military hospital close by Luxor, a fictional Southern city on the Mississippi. There "the days passed with a swift inexorability that was the essence of a tragedy in a drama." And there the four muddle through a sequence of implausibly pathetic fates. The rushed, bumpy narrative seems less...
...work actor," he said. "Acting is a nice way to goof off." In 1968, he made his professional directing debut with The Boys in the Band. "I didn't really want to direct it. I was directing college theater at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., and Mart Crowley, the author, was a student of mine. He had been working on the play and he brought it to me. I had to direct it to get him out of my apartment." Originally produced in an Off-Off-Broadway workshop, the play proved unexpectedly popular. "I never thought it would...
...city that care forgot," tourism has traditionally been the second biggest money-spinner after its port, the nation's second busiest. The French Quarter, its major magnet, is a trap, not an attraction, a mart of sleazy sex shows, watered whisky and jaded jazz...
When Sears, Roebuck's profits tumbled 28% in 1974, it was all too obvious why. Seeking a fashion image, the company had been stocking and advertising higher-priced goods; when the recession suddenly made shoppers price conscious, Sears was stuck with unsold inventories, and discount merchandisers like K mart successfully invaded its old middlebrow market. Since then, Sears has shifted back into its traditional niche between the low-priced stores and the fashion shops, largely at the urging of Senior Executive Vice President Edward R. Telling. Last week Telling, 58, got his reward: a committee of directors chose...
...thought had the inside track. But Swift had been neutral in the fashion v. tradition battle; Telling strongly supported the move back to the middle market and, since he was boss of all field operations, his voice was decisive. Says he: "We are not Bloomingdale's or K mart. We are once again back to where people feel comfortable with us." The move has been a huge success: Sears' sales of $15 billion and profits of $695 million in 1976 both set records. In the first half of this year, sales jumped 14.6% and profits 63% from...