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Running the company alone, Lincoln helped build Federated Department Stores into what ranks (on first-quarter earnings) as the nation's biggest retailer, adding such stores as Columbus' F. & R. Lazarus Co. (1929), Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus (1929), Manhattan's Bloomingdale Bros. (1930), Houston's Foley Bros. (1949), Dallas' Sanger Bros. (1951). Yet he was never so busy selling that he forgot the workers and society around him. Filene was a leading spirit of the New England Industrial Development Corp. to encourage small businessmen, pumped hard for better schools, wrote three books...
Died. Roger Williams Straus, 65, retired (April 1957) board chairman of American Smelting & Refining Co., a founder (1928) of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, and chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents; of a heart attack; in Liberty...
LINES OF LIFE (153 pp.)-François Mauriac- Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
COUP DE GRÂCE (151 pp.) - Marguerite Yourcenar - Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
CLOSE TO COLETTE (245 pp.)-Maurice Goudeket-Farrar Straus & Cudahy...