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...STRAUS CUP (FINAL STANDINGS) House PTS Mather 1670.25 Leverett 1610.35 Lowell 1481.05 Winthrop 1352.95 Quincy 1289.50 North 1172.00 Currier 1045.83 Cabot 821.03 Eliot 753.00 Dunster 683.60 Kirkland 682.73 Dudley 558.50 Adams...
...investment, the retailing industry has the look of a losing bet. In just the past few months, hard times or bankruptcy has befallen such legendary stores as B. Altman, Bonwit Teller, Bloomingdale's and Abraham & Straus. Yet this prominent list of casualties failed to dampen the bidding war that began last September when B.A.T. Industries of London decided to sell Saks Fifth Avenue, one of the most prestigious U.S. retailing chains. At least four potential buyers vied for the richly profitable company (estimated 1989 earnings: $111 million), which has 45 stores in such locales as Manhattan, Beverly Hills, and Palm...
There are big parties in Boylston, Sever and Straus...
...Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...sale. The setbacks have devastated Campeau, 66, a brash Canadian developer who became the most powerful retailer in the U.S. when he acquired Allied Stores and Federated Department Stores in 1980s takeover fights. Included in the deals were such prominent chains as Jordan Marsh, Bon Marche, Abraham & Straus and Burdines. But while the raids made Campeau a high-rolling business celebrity, they left his Toronto-based Campeau Corp. with more than $10 billion of leveraged-buyout debt and interest charges so high that the stores could not produce enough income to meet them...