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Some businessmen who support the principle of true interest disclosure dispute the methods proposed by Douglas. Among them is Sears, Roebuck & Co. Chairman Charles Kellstadt, who argues that there is a big difference between an installment-plan sale and a flat loan, and that interest charges are only a "small portion" of the total cost of extending credit (which also includes such expenses as investigations and salaries for credit office staffs). He further contends that computing interest charges on an annual basis for the popular revolving charge accounts would enormously complicate bookkeeping. This, retailers say, would increase the cost...
...suspicious if anything satisfies you right off." After a quick lunch, Mauldin grids his drawingboard work area into nine squares and begins drafting the cartoon, first in pencil and then in ink. A stickler for just the right detail, he frequently consults his favorite reference, the Sears, Roebuck catalogue, or poses before a Polaroid Land camera (with a self-tripping shutter) to get the authentic look of a clenched fist, a tyrant's sneer, a trouser seat viewed from the rear...
...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...