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GORKY Book and Lyrics by STEVE TESICH Music by MEL MARVIN...
...year storekeepers are entering their critical period in an optimistic mood. Retailers are predicting an increase in Christmas sales of around 10% over last year. Even discounting the fact that consumer prices are about 7.5% higher than a year ago, that would leave a real gain. Bloomingdale's President Marvin S. Traub says his store could post about a 15% gain over 1974, when the economy was skidding toward the bottom of its worst slump since the 1930s...
...past dozen years, the prime mover behind Bloomingdale's has been Marvin Traub, 50, co-leader with Chairman Lawrence Lachman of what has become known throughout U.S. retailing as "the Bloomingdale's gang." Traub, the son of a corsetmaker, was wounded in World War II and came back with one leg shorter than the other; he wears a built-up shoe yet walks briskly and jogs ten minutes daily before leaving his Tudor-style home in Scarsdale. After graduating from Harvard Business School in 1949, he went to work briefly for Alexander's at $100 a week as an assistant...
...Marvin N. Bagwell '76, president of the Crimson Key, said this week that such a group, if "coherently structured," could eliminate "needless overlapping and interorganizational rivalry...
...Last Picture Show, 4 and 8 p.m.; and The King of Marvin Gardens, 6:10 and 10:10 p.m., tonight only...