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...change in Penney began in 1957 after executives looked at surging Sears, Roebuck and decided that their brand of merchandising would be obsolete by 1970. The prime mover was William M. Batten, a West Virginia storekeeper's son who clerked for Penney at 17 before studying economics. He undertook a two-year, 150-page study that proved so thorough that he was promoted from vice president to president and chief executive in 1958 to implement it. (In 1964, Batten moved up to chairman.) Besides remodeling small stores ("For years we were only in small towns," says Vice President William...
...long delayed but always-expected something that we live for." The Glass Menagerie is thus the most Chekhovian play of the U.S.'s most Chekhovian playwright. Its mood is mist before the eyes; yet it is propelled as inexorably as the tides. At its heart is the demonic mover of the seemingly motionless-time. The texture of the play is music: nocturnal, poignant and poetic...
Died. Eileen Keliher Jeffers Yager, 61, shy, retiring adopted daughter of William M. Jeffers, onetime president (1937-1946) and prime mover of the Union Pacific Railroad, chief beneficiary of his relatively modest (about $500,000) estate on his death in 1953; three days after she was wed (for the first time) to Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Thomas C. Yager, 47, apparently of drowning after she fell overboard from their chartered 36-ft. honeymoon yacht Carefree, in the channel between Catalina Island and the California coast, while her husband was below decks...
Between Milking Hours? Cox believes that man in the secular city is equally indifferent to religion, in which gods or God are seen as controlling the destiny of the world, and to metaphysics, which philosophically defines the Creator as some kind of First Cause or Prime Mover. In other words, the world has been "defatalized," and has become the task and responsibility of man alone. Instead of deploring this trend, the church should welcome and assist it by supporting rapid social change. This will mean, Cox warns, a restructuring of its essential tasks: kerygma (proclaiming God's message), diakonia...
...voting rights bill that President Johnson sent to Congress last week strikes up the band. As Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, prime mover and a key author of the bill, explained to a House Judiciary Subcommittee last week: "This bill applies to every kind of election, federal, state and local, including primaries. It is designed to deal with the two principal means of frustrating the 15th Amendment: the use of onerous, vague, unfair tests and devices enacted for the purpose of disenfranchising Negroes, and the discriminatory administration of these and other kinds of registration requirements...