Word: mattress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Macy's shopper can buy an iguana ($2.49), a painting by Joan Miró, a heart-shaped mattress, an old-fashioned stiff collar, a complete set of Tom Swift books, fresh Beluga caviar, and 900 Macy's private-label items, the last at prices 10% to 15% below national brands. Macy's has a shop that sells nothing but candles, another devoted solely to Oriental rugs, still others dealing only in antiques or plastic flowers. It also has its own prescription drugstore, hardware and auto-accessories shops, theater club, travel agent, and a jewelry store watched over...
...department-store purchases were made by women. Indulging whimsy and impulse, they bought tens of millions of pairs of lacy, textured stockings (see MODERN LIVING) to wear in millions of fashionable high boots. They bought family pool tables, maternity stretch pants, gold-plated bathroom fixtures and electric sheet and mattress covers (for those who already have electric blankets...
Born. To Mary Rodgers, 33, Richard's composer-daughter (Once Upon a Mattress, Hot Spot), and Henry Guettel, 36, general manager of Lincoln Center's Music Theater: their second son (she has three children by a previous marriage); in Manhattan...
ONCE UPON A MATTRESS (CBS, 8:30-10 p.m.). In this musical-comedy adaptation of The Princess and the Pea, Carol Burnett re-creates her off-Broadway role as a swamp girl who swims the castle moat and is courted by a prince. Richard Rodgers' daughter Mary composed the score...
...shopping center will rise near Hilo and a 150-room Hilton hotel at Kailua-Kona. On Maui, work has begun on a seven-story, 100-room addition to the Wailuku Hotel. The building boom and the prospect of more tourists also aid other industries. Four new mattress factories have been opened, and Schlitz is about to build a 100,000-barrels-a-year brewery near Pearl Harbor...