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...into the biggest U.S. department store chain, with a $437 million-a-year gross. Last week, without spooning a nickel from Allied's treasury, he made it even bigger: he completed a deal to take over 84-year-old Stern Brothers* department store and give Allied its first outlet in Manhattan...
...Cloister. As she grew up, Barbara's need for a dramatic outlet became more urgent than ever. The pictures father Norman took on his rare, explosive visits show her as a leggy towhead assuming all the languorous and seductive poses common to the movie magazines of the day. When no camera was at hand, Barbara would register her soul-searing emotions before a mirror. Her sister Joan and her mother, who disapproved of the children going to movies, called it "making faces...
Terrible-tempered Westbrook Pegler proved to be too hot to handle last week for the New York Journal-American, his No. 1 outlet. It killed a Pegler column warning readers not to buy U.S. bonds, although the Washington. Times-Herald and some other papers thought it fit to print. Wrote Peg: "Any corporation . . . promoting the purchase of Government bonds on the pretense that such bonds are good investments, is either a party to a confidence game or a victim of stupid management. In either case I am not kidded...
Chiropodists & Cellos. The idea was Professor Weber's. "Unless our small towns are good," he thought, "we cannot say that we have a cultured country." He wanted a town orchestra as an "outlet for the musician who doesn't want to be a virtuoso but who still wants to play"-and who otherwise doesn't have a chance "unless he is a little Heifetz." Nelson Vance Russell, president of Carroll College, was as eager as Weber, and Cymbalist Hayek finally agreed to try. Result: the Waukesha Symphony...
...Gorgeous George, Garrulous Godfrey . . . westerns, British films from the bottom of the vault, midget autos, roller-skating derbies . . . kitchen and fashion demonstrators, giveaways, and the upper slopes of Faye Emerson." But if he is willing "to curb his imagination" and to look on the medium as "a trade outlet, not an art... it's a living...