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...through the B. Altman department store in Manhattan last week, many of them looked wistfully at the lush elegance that surrounded them. The Renaissance-style emporium, completed in 1914 and situated across the street from the Empire State Building at 34th Street and Fifth Avenue, boasts crystal chandeliers and parquet floors, lofty ceilings and broad aisles. B. Altman, with its 124-year-old reputation for quality and gentility, is going out of business. Six of Altman's seven stores, situated mostly in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, will be shuttered next month because its current owners were unable...
...stop. It seemed he was going around again just for the money (a stream of failed investments has him at public loggerheads with his agent) or maybe for the curtain calls at all the final stops (testimonials have included a motorcycle in Milwaukee and a chunk of Boston's parquet floor...
After dumping my Adidas on one of the many shelves, I hopped through the icy foyer into the warm, incensed air of the Krishna center. I was late, and an enthusiastic vocal mishmash of "Hare Hare'' was already pouring from the ceremony room. Parquet floors and velvet-tinsel wallpaper surrounded a gleaming swirl of wooden staircases and crystal chandeliers --it seemed more like a British bed'n'breakfast than an eastern temple, and my brain-washing scenario faded in the face of architectural banality...
Harvard forged a 23-19 halftime advantage on the strength of its 10 for-18 performance from the floor and the Tigers' abysmal nine for 24 effort from the parquet...
...days of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Then he became a guide with Gray Line Tours. In 1950, he said, "I figured out maybe I could lead tours to heaven, and maybe I could sneak in a side door myself." For the moment, however, he led an elderly lady onto the parquet floor and commenced to execute a quite graceful cha cha cha. -By Gregory Jaynes