Word: roebuck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Penney Co., the nation's second-largest general merchandiser (after Sears, Roebuck & Co.), rang up $208 million sales in March, thus outracing last March by 8.3% and completing a five-year stretch of consecutive monthly-sales increases. Since 1962, sales have risen from $1.7 billion to 1967's $2.75 billion-a 60% increase that edged out Sears's (59%), far exceeded that of third-ranked Montgomery Ward...
Though the practice is by no means widespread, many companies are helping their former weekend warriors with financial aid, including substantial supplementary pay. Among the leaders is Sears, Roebuck & Co., whose called-up family men can count on receiving the difference between service pay and 75% of their civilian salary for at least four years. Even unmarried draftees who have been with the company for at least 16 weeks, go to induction with an extra week...
...Show. Ascoli and his wife Marion Rosenwald, a Sears, Roebuck heiress, wearied of making up deficits. Very much the editorial autocrat, Ascoli had trouble grooming a successor. He hired a succession of distinguished editors: Harlan Cleveland, Theodore H. White, Theodore Draper, Irving Kristol. But none of them stayed very long. Through it all, the Reporter remained steady, sober, unsensational...
Winship has chosen a political man like himself -- a mellow dex-radical named Charlie Whipple--to head the editorial staff. As an undergraduate at Harvard in the '30's, Whipple was a card-carrying Communist and was arrested picketing Sears, Roebuck. After working his way from office boy to reporter on the Globe,he spent two years as a guild organizer before returning to the paper. (He no longer agrees with the guild and is not a member, but he remembers that he "gave it may all in those days...
Whatever the cost and whoever the decorator, the look that is in vogue in the '60s is openly, eclectic (see color pages). States Sears, Roebuck's Director of Design Richard D. Butler: "The period room is a thing of the past." With the prices of authentic antiques soaring as the worldwide supply diminishes, it was inevitable. The decorator, as a consequence, has become an artful mix master...