Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...older brother Harold contracted TB. Hannah Nixon took him to Arizona where, on visits, Dick earned money as barker for a wheel of fortune carnival booth. In Whittier, Calif., where the Nixons had moved after their Yorba Linda lemon grove failed, Frank and the boys kept the home, grocery store and filling station going. After five years in Arizona. Harold died* and Hannah returned to Whittier, where she worked 18 hours a day in the store. As the oldest surviving son, Dick had to carry a heavy burden of family responsibility. Recalls his brother Donald: "None...
...thus with a deft courtesy and in a manner almost inconceivably frustrating to the highly ordered world of any lady buyer, she was led for fifteen minutes from paint supplies (Mr. Abercrombie) to the farm store ("that completely kills them") to ladies' lingerie ("They begin to catch on here, our falsetto is not so good.") The tour winds up in the automotive department (Mr. Chrysler speaking) and with the buyer, incoherent with rage attempting to get the operator...
Exam period is a tiresome ordeal but their Sears tour has done small wonders for the room's occupants. They are thinking now of taking the store's orders. It seemed, after all, a shame to disappoint the eager man who called up one day and barked: "Cut the nonsense and give me the automobile department quick. I want to order...
When she was a teenager, Barbara Hutton, the five & dime store heiress, was as fat as butter, and slim, gum-chewing daughters of plain people were wont to gaze at her newspaper pictures and cry with feline contentment: "She's got money, but look at that shape." When pretty Barbara grew older, she reduced until her bones showed. Afterward, she was sick a lot. Between bouts in expensive hospitals she wandered wanly around Europe, wearing jewels and Paris dresses and collecting husbands (two princes, one count and Movie Actor Gary Grant) as befitted a member of international society...
...muscle power, which keeps them out of the rougher side of industry, where many top executives get their start. The career they are really interested in is marriage. "By the time you have spent a lot of time and money training them for executive jobs," says a Seattle department-store man, "some guy grabs them off, or they get pregnant, or something." Says Charles Percy, president of Bell & Howell (cameras): "Sometimes they permit themselves to be distracted by husbands and families. This is hard for businessmen to understand, since no man ever takes more than a day away from work...