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MOST major department stores are dominated by family dynasties-Macy's, Gimbels, Neiman-Marcus, Atlanta's Rich's. The biggest dynasty of all is perpetuated by the descendants of German immigrant Simon Lazarus, who settled in Columbus in 1850 and started a store that eventually blossomed into Federated Department Stores, the largest U.S. department-store chain. Federated's 60 outlets include New York City's Abraham & Straus and Bloomingdale's, Boston's Filene's, Miami's Burdine's and Houston's Foley's. Last week President Ralph Lazarus...
...still below ground. Now, in its frantic effort to keep up with Houston, it is building two 50-story office buildings-mostly, it seems, because Houston has the tallest west of the Mississippi in the 44-story Humble Oil Building. Mrs. Edward Marcus, wife of a Dallas Neiman-Marcus executive and an admirer of her city, concedes that Dallasites tend "in this first-generation wealth to put money into things that show. It is not comfortable with its money the way Boston and New York...
Across the U.S., from Boston's Jordan Marsh to San Francisco's Emporium, the Christmas push is on, and specialized holiday departments are already humming. Among all the Christmas catalogues descending on charge-account customers, Dallas' Neiman-Marcus last week mailed out a catalogue that, as usual, seeks to top 'em all on how to overspend. This year there is an Ampex console that contains a home TV camera, a color receiver, and a video tape recorder that stores TV films. Price...
...Madame. At luncheons and press conferences, South Viet Nam's Mme. Nhu continued to air her grievances against the U.S. In Chicago she termed the U.S. withdrawal of financial aid to Viet Nam's Special Forces a "betrayal." Arriving in Texas, she made a pilgrimage to Neiman-Marcus' famed department store in Dallas, lunched at the city's rooftop Ports O' Call Restaurant, and was guest of honor at a Texas-sized blowout at the Bee County ranch of Millionaire Dudley T. Dougherty, who keeps an oil well in his front yard...
...instance: original price of a pure silk dress from Neiman-Marcus, $29.95-Filene's Basement, $6.99 to $5.24 to $3.49 to $1.74 purchase price; child's suit from Saks Fifth Avenue, $5-Filene's Basement, $1.39 to $1.04 to 69? to 34? purchase price...