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...Christmas buying season brought little cheer to corporate raider and would-be retailing tycoon Robert Campeau. Citibank notified his Allied and , Federated stores, owners of Bloomingdale's and Abraham & Straus, that the bank might formally place loans totaling $2.3 billion in default as early as Jan. 10. Many Campeau suppliers and investors concluded that the chains would soon be forced to seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy. "You would have to be out of your mind to ship to either of these companies under current conditions," said one supplier...
Nancy Ekholm Burkert's luminous accompaniments to the stories of Hans Christian Andersen and Edward Lear are classics of the genre. The French legend of Valentine & Orson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $16.95) further enhances her reputation. Twins are separated at birth; one is raised by a king in a court, the other by a bear in a forest. The boys meet as antagonists, but after a series of picaresque adventures, become reunited and rewarded. This too is staged as a drama, enacted by rhyming players who evoke the best of Ingmar Bergman, Walt Disney and the artist-adapter herself...
When Jason T. Winmill '93 and his roommate met President Derek C. Bok at the Orientation Week tea in September, the president told them that he wished he had more time to chat. But unlike most first-year students, the Straus residents took Bok at his word...
...leaving Harvard, Rosenthal will also becomevice-president and member of the board ofdirectors of Farrar, Straus and Giroux...
Company president and chief executive officerRoger W. Straus said "I know many of the fineauthors he has worked with and they share myassessment of his gifts as a publisher. All of mycolleagues join me in eagerly awaiting Arthur'sarrival next...