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...recent weeks Allied Stores Corp., F. W. Woolworth Co. and S. S. Kresge Co. have all announced plans to set up their own discount operations. Last week the nation's largest discount house countered with the news that it was about to move into the inner sanctum of retailing society. As the newest addition to its chain of 14 stores in four states, E. J. Korvette Co. (TIME, March 10) will open an outlet in a Greek-columned building on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. The building's previous tenant (whose future Manhattan location is still undecided...
...typical freshman arrived and took refuge in a large and homely Union, where "Copey" held forth in an upstairs lounge, explaining that he taught in "the finest gentlemen's library in the world." But the freshman was reminded of the sick world beyond that sanctum when Leverett Saltonstall 'I4, then speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, told him: "We are in the midst of our difficulties. To solve our problems we need the ability, the courage of you gentlemen and others who are entering colleges...
...like rats, nor are they a sign of decay or poverty. CRIMSON mice happen to be the most elegant of their kind in the western hemisphere. Newspaper mice are an especially varied lot, and include editorial mice, reporting mice, photographic mice, and, of course, business mice. The CRIMSON'S Sanctum is an ideal place for mice...
There were some vivid differences, however. Meyers found the Kennedy crew more willing to gossip, to impart tidbits from the inner sanctum, than the Nixon staff. "Though Dick Nixon is always friendly and cheerful with the press, and meets them more often in conferences, there is a curtain of privacy around him when he is not on public display." The difference, he suspects, is the difference between being
...sent back to Venezuela in 1938, made assistant manager in Caracas, then general manager for Venezuela (in 1944, when only 38). There he saw nationalistic feelings developing, changed company policy to make it more sympathetic. For his performance in Venezuela, he was picked for the managing directors' inner sanctum, returned to London in 1947. Put in charge of coordinating the Group's widespread production and exploration, he guided it through the postwar turmoil and rebuilding. In 1957 he took over leadership of the Group...