Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Federated is now building a new $9 million home for Foley's. Windowless, glass-walled and crisscrossed with chutes and conveyors, it will be the last word in department-store merchandising. Customers will be able to park their cars in the Foley garage, make their purchases, find them in their cars when finished. But Fred Lazarus has not been satisfied to wait for the new store to boost business. Foley's sales are already running close to double the rate they were when Federated took over, and profit this year is up to nearly...
...Adams House and Brooklyn, as News Editor; Robert W. Morgan, Jr. '46, of Eliot House and E. Islip, L. I., as Sorts Editor; Waldo Profit, Jr. '46, of the Hotel Brunswiek and Chiekasha. Okla., as Assistant Editor Chairman; and Richard L. Wattling '49, of Winthrop House and Oak Park. Ill as Circulation Manager...
Last week his peaceful world blew up with a gaudy and scandalous bang. A deposition filed before a New York surrogate by a Manhattan attorney named Raymond T. Armbruster told a startling story. Armbruster's story: two months before her death last summer, a rich, British-born, Park Avenue socialite named Mrs. Mabel Seymour Greer told him of a girlhood indiscretion. She had borne a child out of wedlock in Boston more than half a century before. The father: Dr. Willard B. Segur. In Armbruster's opinion her child and only heir was the doctor's adopted...
...simplified his task by casually describing each species in terms of one specimen. Two centuries later, Picasso has embellished the Count's manuscript in the same spirit: by etching each creature with easy, sometimes careless familiarity, as if it were an ancient inhabitant of his own private park...
...Whitman, genteel, well-to-do daughter of an Italian countess, did not accept the offer. But after her husband died, she remembered it. Last week, in its small (25 ft. by 35 ft.) but plushy quarters on Manhattan's Park Avenue, Countess Mara, Inc. celebrated its eighth and most opulent anniversary. Since its first birthday, sales (of silk ties only, at $6.50 to $15 each) have increased over 1,400%; they netted $40,155 last year...