Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FORTNUM & MASON of London, the world's most elegant and conservative (the clerks wear morning dress) food specialty store, is going modern. After installing cash registers (without bells), the store will now put in a U.S.-style soda fountain to "keep abreast of the times...
Ever since a bomb exploded in the big Meier & Frank department store (TIME, April 25), Portland, Ore. has been keyed to a high pitch-somewhere between a laugh and a scream-by fake bomb threats. Last week another bomb exploded in Portland, this time with fatal results. The victim: Oliver Kermit Smith, 35, a prominent lawyer who lived in the highly respectable Alameda district with his wife, Marjorie, 34. After an evening of gin rummy at the Columbia-Edgewater Country Club, he called his wife to say he would be home in 10 minutes; he went...
...part-time consultant). She studied for a year in Paris, working part time as a tracer of fashion sketches, and learned "the way clothes worked, the way they felt, where they fastened." Back in New York, she got a job painting rosebuds on lampshades for a store, did some modeling at B. Altman, became a designer in a knit-goods company at $45 a week-and was fired after eight months...
...searched in vain through a furniture company for the intruder who had broken a glass door panel, Mrs. Claudia Mae Oldenburg called, confessed: "l was out with a gentleman friend last night drinking; on the way home I got an urge to break a window and go into the store," was asked why she had phoned, explained, "I got another urge...
...Died. Edgar Jonas Kaufmann, 69, president (since 1924) of Kaufmann's Department Store in Pittsburgh (which was merged with the May Department Stores Co. in 1946), philanthropist, civic leader, fancier of modern homes (the most famous of his houses: Falling Water, the lavish $90,000 Frank Lloyd Wright mountain retreat located at Bear Run, Pa., which features concrete slabs cantilevered over a waterfall); of a heart condition; in Palm Springs, Calif...