Word: strause
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...word in business these days, but the chairman of R. H. Macy & Co., which runs the world's largest department store, believes in setting a course and sticking to it. "Once we agree on a policy, we don't change it without considerable consultation," says Jack Isidor Straus, 63, who last week reported that Macy's quarterly earnings rose 25% above last year's rate. For Macy's big Manhattan store, Straus's policy is to maintain a middle-income emporium "that you'd expect to have just about everything you want...
IDIOTS FIRST by Bernard Malamud. 212 pages. Farrar, Straus...
...BLUE LANTERN by Colette. 161 pages. Farrar, Straus...
...BENEFACTOR by Susan Sontag. 274 pages. Farrar, Straus...
...beheaded man the patron saint? It is by such recondite clues that the reader comes to understand that the scene of Susan Sontag's The Benefactor is, in fact, Paris. The publishers confirm this on the book jacket. "Identifiable as Paris" is the tentative concession, as if Farrar, Straus had only reached a majority decision on the issue...