Word: salesclerks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Gertrude Berg as an overloving grandma who offers too much advice to her daughter (Betsy von Furstenberg). When daughter rebels, frustrated grandma seeks succor in a salesclerk's job, soon comically jangles modern commerce...
Count Your Change. A cash register that figures out how much change a customer should get was put on sale by The National Cash Register Co. After computing a regular total, the salesclerk rings up the amount paid by a customer, punches a "change" key, and numerals flash up to show how much is due. The new register also issues a receipt listing each item, the total, the amount given in payment and the correct change. Price: as much as $350 above conventional registers...
...Philadelphia's Gimbel Bros, department store last week, a customer asked a salesclerk: "Where do you sell apartments?" Without batting an eye, the clerk directed her to the sixth floor, where Gimbels did indeed have apartments for sale, the first department store in the U.S. to pull such a merchandising stunt. They were in a 14-story, $3,200,000 cooperative housing project to be built by the Peoples Bond & Mortgage Co. with FHA assistance, near Rittenhouse Square...
Burr Tillstrom's first solid job was with a WPA-supported puppet show. "It was terrific," he recalls. "We played everywhere-hospitals, old people's homes, orphanages." But the stirring days faded in 1937. Two years later, Tillstrom was working as a salesclerk when RCA put on a television demonstration in his store. "That did it. The moment I saw TV, I knew it was the one medium made expressly for puppets...