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...Raymond Loewy, is an airy, two-story building with a huge glass panel in front and a parking lot for 1,500 cars. It is an extension of Dorothy Shaver's firm belief in peddling her wares where the customers live. President Shaver, who started as head comparison shopper 29 years ago and rose steadily to Lord & Taylor's top post in 1945, has since boosted the store's sales 62% to more than $50 million. She launched three suburban branches, kept sales of her Fifth Avenue store rising. In West Hartford, as elsewhere, Dorothy Shaver hopes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Connecticut Invasion | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

...authors, and--most novel of all--regular courses recorded in classrooms of local colleges and universities. For those who like their news with a dash of intelligence, WGBH will call in faculty experts to analyze and interpret current affairs. Those whose yen for practical information goes beyond the chatty shopper's guide will get advice from such institutions as the Nursery Training School of Boston, (a Tufts College affiliate.) Among the programming highpoints are weekly broadcasts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, marking that organization's first full-length appearance on the air-waves since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell Institute Puts Culture On Air | 10/10/1951 | See Source »

...shopper pushed her way into Macy's department store in Manhattan one day last week, panted out orders to her children: "Bobby, you go to the Mixmasters; Helen, you take the escalator and line up at the Hopalong Cassidys, and I'll get in line to buy papa a suit." Like thousands of others, the mother & children were cashing in on the biggest price war in the history of New York retailing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: The Welcome War | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

...Shopper-Stopper. Boston's Jordan Marsh department store last week began televising its own fashion shows in color to three receivers within the store, plans to place 20 more receivers in the store and in show windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Apr. 9, 1951 | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

Hong Kong's shops and department stores were bursting with the goods of East & West. In a space of 20 yards on Queen's Road a shopper could have his choice of a Cantonese pressed duck, a London-made Burberry topcoat or a large Chinese Communist flag. The abaci of the money-changers clicked steadily. Passports to European countries were selling for as high as $8,000 apiece. On nearby Ice House Street the firm of Lo & Lo, Solicitors, reported a thriving business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONG KONG: Keep Right On Sitting | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

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