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...Berlin's Borsig machine-tool factory to use the company's huge cutting and welding facilities, they were met with scorn. "We start work at 6:45 a.m.," the factory hands pointedly declared, fully expecting them to saunter in each day at noon. But German Sculptress Brigitte Meier-Denninghoff and her husband, Martin Matschinsky, are made of sterner stuff. Up each day at 5 o'clock, they continued working long after everyone else had gone home. Six months later, the commission-a 16-ft. stainless-steel sculpture-was completed. The workers gave the artists their highest accolade...
With this expansiveness has come expansion. May will open eight new stores within the next year, plans to build eight more each year until 1970. Behind Federated and Allied among U.S. chains, it moved closer to second place last spring by acquiring stock control of Oregon's Meier & Frank, a move that caused a bitter battle with Los Angeles' Broadway-Hale. Last week it moved still closer. Long concentrated in the Midwest and West, May moved into the populous Northeast for the first time by buying, for $41 million, Hartford's 118-year...
Died. Arthur Meier Schlesinger Sr., 77, longtime (1924-54) Harvard history professor and father of New Frontiersman Arthur Jr., a specialist in American life who passed up the hurly-burly of active government except for a World War II stint on the Commission on Freedom of the Press, preferring instead to remain in Cambridge, pioneering in what is now known as social history with such highly regarded studies as 1925's Political and Social History of the United States; after a brief illness; in Roxbury, Mass...
Last winter the company bought one-third interest in Oregon's largest department-store chain, Meier & Frank and this spring battled its chief rival in Los Angeles, the May Co., to a stalemate when both firms tried to merge with Meier & Frank. Broadway-Hale will open its 29th store, an $8,000,000 building, next month in the Los Angeles suburb of Downey. It has 14 other projects in the works, including an expansion in Phoenix that will push Broadway-Hale ahead of its Arizona competitors and new stores in Reno and Las Vegas that will make the company...
...financial aid who receive the highest mark on a German A or B exam. Brinton, like Louis Hartz '40 and Leonard K. Nash '39 won deturs, prizes of books awarded out of the Charity of Edward Hopkins to students making Group 1 for the first time. In 1936 Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. 38 wrote a laudable sophomore essay and won a Ferguson. Walter Jackson Bate '39 won a Bowdoin in 1942 for an essay on "A Rejection of Intensity: Prosodic Development of Keats from May to September, 1819." Samuel Beer also won $300 in 1939 for his "Appetite and Reason...