Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston's Summer Street last week, an elderly woman gazed at a store window and said: "It's the loveliest thing I ever saw." Behind the glass, Jordan Marsh Co. had set up an orchestra of 14 tiny angels dressed in gold and white against a pastel-blue background; the blond leader tapped a baton, and his musicians lifted their instruments to the strains (recorded) of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. The woman's comment was heard often around the U.S. last week. For Christmas 1953, retail stores had spent $30 million to turn their windows into...
...Macy's put a collection of dolls in its window instead of the usual holly-decorated merchandise. The window was a great success, and this year Macy's spent an estimated $75,000 to show what a white Christmas looked like in 1850. Other U.S. stores, which used to be content with doggedly symmetrical flower vases and stilted mannequins, have picked up the idea, until today Christmas takes up an average 60% of retail store display budgets. Most stores do their own work, are busy months ahead of time. Those who want a custom job turn...
...Silvestri Art Manufacturing Co., which made the dolls for Lord & Taylor (opposite), and Manhattan's Staples-Smith Inc., which designed the Nativity scene for Chicago's Carson Pirie Scott & Co. Between them, the two companies gross well over $2,000,000 a year, serve nearly 100 stores around the U.S. Silvestri specializes in composition mechanical dolls that cost up to $1,150 apiece ($18,000 for a complete set of 60) and can be dressed up to resemble a Viennese violinist or a French pastry cook. This year 37 stores and office buildings from Manhattan to Miami will...
This is the first Republican Christmas in twenty years. Does that mean it will be a Christmas of hard work, of spoils to the rugged individualist and nothing for the security-seeker? Christmas has traditionally been a season for the extension of largesse to the grasshopper who didn't store up the summer crops as well as the ant who did, a season of good will to all, Democrats and Republicans alike. Everyone has been able to share in Christmas: the carol-singers, the people who lovingly fendle Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" as well as those who parody...
Toll Call. In Chicago, two strangers entered the J. & J. Liquor Store, told Owner Joseph Glickin that they were going to use the pay phone, 35 minutes later departed, taking the telephone with them...