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...Girl on Page 44 (The Four Lads; Columbia). An upbeat quartet is driven by the mail-order economy into a fine state of mail-order passion. "I'd like to get," carol the boys with a slogging beat, "a girl from Sears and Roebuck/ Like the one that I saw ... on Page...
...Teamster-dominated joint transport council? He heard requests for loans from four Miami Beach hotels, decided he would grant two. (The Teamsters already have $3,000,000 invested in fancy Miami Beach real estate and plan to double the sum.) He announced plans to organize employees of Sears, Roebuck and of Tampa breweries. Then came Jimmy's bombshell: he had already begun a campaign to recruit the millions of state, county and municipal employees across the land-including the police...
...Saturdays work slows, and the city's center fills with men, women and children with pesos in their pockets. They mill through Sears, Roebuck, buying made-in-Mexico soap, blankets, toys and washing machines. They sit in chrome chairs along barbershop and beauty-parlor walls, waiting and listening to the hum of electric clippers and dryers. Young wives come in fashionable maternity middy blouses, push wire carts through the aisles of bright supermarkets, squeeze cellophane-wrapped loaves of Bimbo bread and Bimbollos (rolls). Husbands buy bottles of the new, high-quality tequila (from the modernized distilleries in the town...
...Bernard Baruch. As a senior partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co., one of The Street's top ten banking houses, Weinberg has won an enviable reputation as an underwriter skilled at judging the new issue market just right. His most recent success was selling $350 million of Sears, Roebuck debentures-history's biggest debt offering-in a bond market so soggy that some underwriters doubted the issue could be marketed at all; Weinberg did it by offering the issue at a price to yield 4.75%, slightly above comparable issues...
...didn't: "The last department I was in, the chief entertained himself reading a Sears-Roebuck catalogue. I decided that wasn...