Word: roebuck
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...Hampshire and Maine, where visitors logged 2,000,000 camper days last year, the 1961 projection indicates another 200,000. The number of campsites has leaped from 3,000 in 1950 to a record 5,900, including facilities provided by 29 national parks and 152 national forests. ¶Sears, Roebuck's camping equipment sales are up 40% since 1956; its sales of rubberized mattresses alone have risen 700% in a single year. The Coleman Co. of Wichita. Kans., one of the biggest suppliers in the country, has already registered its highest sales in company history for the first four...
Bathtubs and Singing Dogs. Last week a reader of the Post could have learned that "Sears, Roebuck Heir Bob Rose will shoot only the greater kudu, sable antelope and mayala" in Mozambique (Doris Lilly), that "climbing, running and jumping in improper or outgrown shoes can do serious damage" (Josephine Lowman's "Why Grow Old?"), that ex-Blonde English Actress Barbara Steel's dark hair is nearer to her true hair color (Sidney Skolsky), or even, in the lead of Eleanor Roosevelt's column, that "We have just celebrated the Fourth of July." The Journal-American was busy...
...longtime executive vice president, Rabbi Elmer Berger: "We are Americans by nationality, Jews by religion only." It was founded in 1943 by 15 Reform rabbis and some 25 laymen, and is supported largely by Pennsylvania's Lessing J. Rosenwald, philanthropist, art collector and onetime board chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co. It has helped establish religious schools (now numbering about a dozen in the U.S.), donates relief funds for some of the 1,000,000 Palestinian refugees displaced by the Arab-Israeli war ($3,000 last year). Arabs consider the council an ally, distribute Rabbi Berger's anti-Zionist...
DOWN -PAYMENT requirements on credit purchases were dropped by Sears, Roebuck, Montgomery Ward and Aldens to stimulate sales...
...creeps but it gives me the creeps"), and he suffers from the peculiar delusion that anything written about a cocktail party is bound to be funny. He also lapses frequently into college humor (speaking of nervous ailments: "Have you heard of the roofer who got shingles from Sears, Roebuck?"), and sesquipedalian prose ("Amidst verbal wonders and linguistic portents the stultification of English was caused by the decapitation of words as well as by unwonted lengthening"). But at his best he is a very funny man. Readers will be well advised to hold their sides and beware of that first fine...