Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dancers from All Over. Ever since he graduated from Harvard (1930), Lincoln Kirstein has been pushing his close-cropped head and broad shoulders into the arts. As the son of the board chairman of Boston's Filene's department store, he could afford to lose money on his ventures, and often did. Among them the expensive, respected but short-lived highbrow magazine Hound & Horn, Harvard's Society for Contemporary Art a novel, a book of poems, a scholarly book on the dance...
...Philadelphia's Gimbel Bros, department store last week, a customer asked a salesclerk: "Where do you sell apartments?" Without batting an eye, the clerk directed her to the sixth floor, where Gimbels did indeed have apartments for sale, the first department store in the U.S. to pull such a merchandising stunt. They were in a 14-story, $3,200,000 cooperative housing project to be built by the Peoples Bond & Mortgage Co. with FHA assistance, near Rittenhouse Square...
Gimbels had on display full-scale models of apartment layouts, two-room kitchenettes to four rooms. The first day, the store took deposits on 65 apartments priced from $13,000 to $32,350, and by week's end it had sold 250 out of the 299 in the proposed building. Said Gimbels' boss Arthur Kaufmann: "One of the most amazing responses . . . in the history of merchandising...
...slept on sacking on the floor of their leaky hut, sold their milk and vegetables in the slum neighborhood where they lived, and tried to behave like grownups. For Tiger, that meant working his tiny patch of land, getting drunk now & then on rum bought on credit at the store of Tall Boy, the Chinaman, and occasionally beating up Urmilla. For Urmilla it meant doing the primitive housework, delivering the milk, worshiping Tiger, and having babies. Everything might have gone well enough in picturesque squalor if Tiger hadn't begun to think about things, and if the war hadn...
...trades councils of the A.F.L.got wind of the project, objected that prefabs assembled by soldiers took work away from union members. The unions threatened strikes on other vital construction. The Army faltered, retreated from its housing plans; some Arctic-type tents were ordered. Last week the G.I.s began to store the crated prefabs. While the wind shrieked outside, the 52nd was back under canvas...