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...talent-packed extravaganza aimed at paying off the $2,000,000 deficit of the recent Democratic campaign (TIME, Dec. 19), Peter's mother melodramatically moved to meet her own bills. In Hollywood, Lady Lawford, seventyish, a British subject ("I would have voted for Mr. Nixon"), took a salesgirl's position with a flossy local jeweler. She was to draw $50 a week for expenses, plus 5% on her sales. Her ladyship's friends explained that she is getting along on a $52-a-month British pension, with Lawford helping out by paying the rent on her house...
Marcus married a Neiman salesgirl, Sportswear Buyer Mary Cantrell, in 1932. Today they live at No. 1 Nonesuch Road in a modern house jammed with paintings, books and sculpture. A civic booster, he promotes Dallas with almost as much zeal as he does his store, works on everything from the Chamber of Commerce to the Symphony Society. But he likes nothing better than discovering things to sell. Once when a woman asked for a dress in a certain shade of buff yellow she had seen in a painting, Marcus had a fabric dyed to order in New York, made...
Most gravely stricken of all were Japan's impressionable young ladies. A 22-year-old salesgirl at the giant Takashi-maya department store in Tokyo gushed to an inquiring reporter: "He is rich, young, handsome and intelligent-the most ideal man in the world." Reiko Dan, a leading Japanese movie actress, confided that she would abstain from voting because Japanese parties lacked "a handsome candidate like Mr. Kennedy...
...price tags on the clothes. "These always get shuffled around in some mysterious way and then the arguments begin ... It is far safer and more profitable in the long run for each salesgirl to be a walking price catalogue...
...week salesgirl in an Adelaide department store, durable Dawn will add even more strength to the swimming team that will represent Australia in the Summer Olympics in Rome. After Dawn had finished rewriting the record book last week, one Aussie official gave way to arm-waving joy: "We'll clean up in Rome." No one said...