Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cryptic, insufficient mark. Though there were frequent requests by students who wanted to see the error of their ways, professors had a good excuse for not returning blue books. University regulations, they said, forbade handing the tests back to the students. Instead, the professor had to store the books for a full year. The ruling, perhaps, was a little vague, but there it was. As it turned out in the last few days, however, it wasn't there at all. An enterprising University Hall secretary dug through the archives and came up with word that what the professors did with...
...Sears, Roebuck bought a site in Lima for its first retail store in Peru, its 25th in Latin America. Sears stores are already doing well ($75 million gross last year) in Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil and Colombia...
Grandma's next show was held at Gimbels department store, which invited her down for the opening. Grandma had not been in Manhattan for years; she later described her visit: "Oh, it was shake hands, shake, shake, shake-and I wouldn't even know the people now. My, my, it was rush here, rush there, rush every other place-but I suppose I shouldn't say that because those people did go to so much bother to make my visit pleasant." A sizable audience gathered at Gimbels to hear Grandma talk about painting. Instead, she told them...
...Inglewood, Calif., suing Hartfield's department store, Patricia Muncy, 29, charged that her bathing suit had turned transparent when wet, leaving her "exposed to public gaze and ridicule," asked $10,000 to compensate for "shock" and a $10.53 refund for the bathing suit...
Clean Sweep. In Littleton, Colo., police nabbed Pest Exterminator Edward Meier after he answered a call from Store Owner Rudolph Lemcke, efficiently cleared the premises of all mice and cockroaches, plus $700 in cash...