Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paris still wears its crown as queen of fashion, though in recent years others have tried to knock it off. But no one ever challenged Parisian dressmakers' sovereignty over Parisians themselves-until last week. At the Printemps department store, a sort of French Macy's, Parisian women who used to snigger at British "tow sack" styles were causing a mild riot, buying English dresses almost as fast as they could be shipped in, despite a 52% French duty. The wool dresses were ordinary, low-priced utility numbers that could be bought off the peg in modest shops...
...suit brought by ex-Librarian Horace Tollefson against two anti-Wagnerites he claimed assaulted him. ¶ Bequest of the week: $156,345 to Williams College from the estate of a thrifty ex-salesman named Burritt Fitch Prudden, '97. Occupation at the time of his death: department store doorman and Christmas season Santa Claus. ¶ Course of the week: the University of New Hampshire's compulsory one-game seminar in football for freshmen. While the freshmen watch, the varsity will scrimmage and a coach will lecture on the plays. Explained one faculty man: too few colleges "ever...
...britches. He is not even a good clerk. Almost daily, his debts and love of swagger drive him to shaky deeds. He takes graft and kickbacks from payrolls, sells secret government information to the natives. When he is fired from his government job, he gets another in the town store. He is soon fired again, and when he sneaks back to dip into the till, his ex-boss traps him. In the scuffle, the storekeeper is killed and Johnson is sentenced to hang. Bamu deserts him, of course. But Johnson's last request is granted. Rather than hang...
...intellectual freedom of our universities, and you stop the progress of American democracy." ¶ Said Cornell's new President Deane W. Malott, former chancellor of the University of Kansas: "The fearful ones who hate and condemn the liberalism in our colleges never suggest any additions to the store of human knowledge, but always subtractions. They want us to leave out all that is interesting and vital, the great current social issues, the great controversies in forms of government, systems of finance and policies of ethics . . . Such a course would not mean free minds...
...into the world's biggest grocery chain (TIME, Nov. 13); of a heart attack; in an elevator taking him to his Manhattan office. "Mr. John" left school at 16 to work in his father's Manhattan grocery, in 1912 set up a new kind of store based on cash & carry, low profit, big volume, fast turnover. The experiment caught on and before long the Hartfords were adding stores at the rate of three a day (today there are 4,700). A sober, earnest man dedicated to his work, Brother John left the financial part of the business...