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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...
...about the experiences of people at Abilities guaranteed to bring a lump to the throat (next one to be published in June: A Laughter in the Lonely Night). He has helped Minneapolis-Honeywell, Hughes Aircraft, Republic Steel, Sperry and Grumman Aircraft to use the skills of the handicapped; Sears, Roebuck rewrote its employment manual to include them...
Self-consciously, she developed a defensive talent for the quick rejoinder. A Marywood priest once tried to sell her a copy of the Sacred Heart Messenger. "What would you rather read?" he argued. "The Sears, Roebuck catalogue," said Jean. One teacher flunked her when, during a ponderous lecture on doctrine, she broke in to inform the class that "a man's best friend is his dogma...
...Lima, Ohio, raised on am bitions to sing or teach, Phyllis met Sher wood in 1938 at northwestern Ohio's Bluff ton College, and for 16 years the Dillers drifted from occupation to occupation, mainly in California. He worked for everyone from the U.S. Navy to Sears. Roebuck, while she wrote news paper society columns, did merchandising work in radio. On the side, she ran the children's choir at the Alameda Presbyterian Church (she had the kids sing through Campbell soup cans, amplifying their voices considerably...