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...this, thank the Ladenschlussgesetz. Basically, shop hours are 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. On the first Saturday of every month -- "langer Samstag," or long Saturday -- they may stay open all day, although they don't have to. Sundays, almost everything is closed. In East Germany the hours are more liberal but, of course, there hasn't been much to buy in the past...
Died. Nicholas Samstag, 64, author and former (1943-60) promotion director of TIME; of cancer; in Manhattan. A recognized, often flamboyant practitioner of his trade, Samstag wrote a number of successful books, including Bamboozled and The Uses of Ineptitude and, while running his own agency after 1960, took ads in Manhattan newspapers offering to teach anyone everything he knew about the advertising and promotion business-for a fee of $10,000. The day after Samstag's death, his fifth wife, Suzanne, 38, was found dead in her room at a Kennedy Airport hotel...
Somehow, it all results in a happy ending, and on the way there, the reader passes a raffish gallery of secondary characters: the Ivy League gangster, Junie Neidlinger; the Boy Scout Congressman, John Kaffey; the carnival hustler, Chick Samstag (who was so cynical that "the failure of tomorrow's sunrise would not have astonished him"). But Author Norris writes with more love of buildings than of people. Rhapsodies to the 20-story "thing of beauty" created by Jeff Hanes run murmurously through the book, and the Tower, though defaced by the years and its occupants, never becomes as caitiff...
...weeks after Weston landed his postwar job at TIME, Nick Samstag, TIME'S Promotion Director, found out that he was a qualified expert in this study of the shields, crests and supporters that accompanied the patents of nobility won by outstanding men of yesterday for outstanding deeds. After talking to him, Samstag got the idea that the ancient science of heraldry could be used to symbolize the many groups that make up the readership of TIME. The result, after much work by the Promotion Department, was a 28-page, 19 by 24 inch book titled The TIME Audience...
Married. Renée Wilcox Baruch, 29, younger daughter of financier Bernard Mannes ("Barney") Baruch; and Henry Robert Samstag, Manhattan broker; in Manhattan...