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...found everything I wanted--from a bottle of Veuve Clicquot to the latest Palm computer. Because Bizrate's rankings for each site are culled from thousands of consumer surveys, rather than the handful per merchant found on many of the other bots (or none at all, at PriceScan and SmartShop), Bizrate also made me feel the safest about shopping online. The on-time delivery rankings are especially handy for last-minute shoppers. About the only thing missing were shipping charges--features my second favorite sites, dealtime.com and mysimon.com usually provided. (The ratings on those sites, however, weren't as complete...
Last week a showing of Lalique glass went on display at Saks Fifth Avenue, Manhattan smartshop, which served to commemorate a notable craftsman's career. The glass ranged the Lalique shades from frosty blue to smoky amber, the Lalique styles from severe to elaborate, the Lalique sculpture from playful to precise. In many an onlooker's mind was the Rond-Point on Paris' Champs-Elysées, where Lalique fountains, illuminated in pre-blackout evenings, sent showers of crystal drops curving high...
...richer residents of San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel is Mrs. Mary Ann Magnin, the spry little 87-year-old founder of I. Magnin & Co., West Coast smartshop chain. Her daily routine includes a drive down the "Peninsula" in her Packard limousine, lunch at a Burlingame restaurant, a brief visit at the main store in San Francisco, dinner in the hotel's dining room. When she was younger she played a shrewd game of poker. Every April her 50-odd children, grandchildren and in-laws assemble for her birthday party, to which the St. Francis contributes a tremendous...
Elected vice president of Saks Fifth Avenue, big Manhattan smartshop, was Ira Arthur Hirschmann, advertising director of Lord & Taylor since 1931. Son of a Baltimore banker, he left Johns Hopkins at 17, studied music, entered the L. Bamberger & Co. department store in Newark as an office boy. There he helped build up the radio station WOR, annotated its Philharmonic Orchestra broadcasts, became publicity and sales director at 25. Now only 32, he is a close adviser of New York City's Mayor LaGuardia, who offered him a post as Commissioner of Markets. An ardent exponent of the Nazi boycott...
...suite. As a tip the bellboy received an apple. The bed was too soft, the nightgown too silky, the gold & rose furnishings too frightening to permit sleep. Annie paced the deep plush carpet. Next morning she climbed into bed for breakfast. The pressagents took her to a Fifth Avenue smartshop. Shrewdly she chose two black gowns, both very simple, very tasteful, very expensive. After lunch, to her great delight, a police escort cleared the way to City Hall. Bumbling Mayor O'Brien was out. Said Annie: 'I ain't going to wait. I'm just...