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...travel business is one of the oldest in merchandising -the mail order catalogue. Available to Montgomery Ward & Co. customers this summer are 500,000 copies of a 66-page, full-color catalogue offering 775 trips-claimed to be the first of its kind in the travel industry. Sears, Roebuck & Co. is offering 18 pages of the magic of far places right along with the band saws and overalls in its current catalogue...
...Other Seven. Though this summer marks its 40th anniversary, State Farm is all but ignoring the fact, instead has its eye firmly fixed on harvests to come. The race to write automobile insurance is more and more a battle between two giants, State Farm and Sears, Roebuck's Allstate. Allstate narrowed the gap in the late 1950s, but State Farm has pulled ahead again recently, last year collected $43 million more in premiums than Allstate. For 1970, State Farm has set a goal of 11 million policyholders. and to achieve it intends to increase its agent force from...
Penney, General Robert E. Wood of Sears, Roebuck, and Michael Cullen, the first supermarketeer.) From Bags to Riches. The man whom McNair hails as the greatest of contemporary U.S. merchants is by turn profane and philosophical, charming and fiercely combative. Eugene Ferkauf is a boy from Brooklyn, and he does not pretend otherwise. Brooklyn is only a 15? subway ride and half a world away from Fifth Avenue...
...farmer's wife who thumbs the familiar Sears, Roebuck catalogue in quest of ginghams and gadgets is in for a surprise. Its pages will soon blossom with art, abstract and otherwise. Hired to gather original paintings, etchings, drawings and sculptures in the U.S. and abroad was Cinemactor Vincent Price, 51, epicure, art collector and ex-champ (in the art category) of TV's $64,000 Challenge. Yaleman ('33) Price will shop for items priced mostly under $100. and Sears will feature them in its 1,500-page catalogue. The venture, conceded one Searsman, is "highly exploratory...
...Staple Singers stick with their family name; the group consists of Father Roebuck Staples, two daughters and a son. Their muted but intensely exciting gospel style, with its country blues feeling, is a reflection of what Roebuck heard when he was growing up in rural Mississippi. Roebuck himself is a first-rate guitarist, but his daughter Mavis is the best vocalist-a contralto whose voice has both a honeyed quality and almost hypnotic intensity. The Staples, who have been appearing together for 12 years, feel "we are fulfilling our obligation as Christian people by singing the Gospel...