Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year jinx by beating A.&M. on the enemy's home field. In 1950, Texas broke out the red candles for the second time, and upset Southern Methodist, the nation's No. 1 team. And once more, last week, the red candles burned in campus store windows, dormitories, classrooms and even in a few faculty offices...
...graduates of girls' colleges hunt jobs the wrong way? Bernice Fitz-Gibbon, advertising director of Manhattan's Gimbels department store ("Nobody but nobody undersells Gimbels") thinks they do. Last week, speaking in Manhattan to the deans and placement directors of 100 women's colleges, Adwoman Fitz-Gibbon, who can make Broadway slang sell girdles, gave them some breezy advice on job-hunting...
...trouble today, concluded Adwoman Fitz-Gibbon, is that too many college placement bureaus never dream of putting their brightest liberal-arts graduates into "lush" secretarial jobs or the retail-store business, but send them into "fusty, dusty publishing houses ... I think the reason you people steer them there-one college places a full third of its graduates in jobs of that type-is because of our American Puritanical background. If it was hard and dull and didn't pay much, it was good for you, and the harder and duller and littler it paid, the more respectable it must...
...thing that worried Mikoyan is the "inattentive and rude attitude on the part of Soviet salesmen to the consumer." "In the field of politeness," he said, "we have much ground to cover . . . What is one to think if, in a Stalingrad department store, a woman shop assistant answers the question of a woman customer: 'Where can one buy cheap cotton stuff?' in this way: 'I am not an inquiry office, citizen...
...Short for government universal store...