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...population has grown, it has shifted from the cities to the suburbs. In Chicago last week, Sears, Roebuck's Retail Sales Manager Clarence C. Choyce told an admen's convention just how big the shift has been, and what it means in terms of changing markets. A few Choyce words...
...telephonic waggery of this inspired prankster, immortalized by Thurber, once drove an innocent Mr. Connor both to of New York and his senses. But now outdoing Scursey, a group of sophomores are capitalizing on a curious accident that has made their room phone number the dial image of Sears Roebuck...
This coincidence keeps the phone pretty busy with imperious voices demanding different Sears departments. So busy, in fact, that the occupants had just about taken to answering with, "This is not Sears Roebuck, you have the wrong number." Happily, however, they decided on a different tack and in official voices began to greet callers with "Sears Roebuck, good morning." Above the phone they pasted a list of different Sears departments through which to shuttle the unsuspecting caller...
...Hunt, the Journal-Bulletin said, put up 95% of the money to start Facts Forum. Among the members of its national board: Sears, Roebuck Chairman Robert E. Wood, Cinemactor John Wayne, Texas Governor Allan Shivers, General Albert C. Wedemyer, All-America Football Player Doak Walker...
Sundowner's Tractor. A three-wheel tractor designed especially for the nation's estimated 2,000,000 "sundown farmers," who work at regular jobs during the day and farm small plots in the evening, was put on sale by Sears, Roebuck. Powered with a 6-h.p. gasoline engine, the tractor can pull any of a dozen attachments for crop work, lawnmowing and snow removal. Price without attachments...