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...Bund and the Park Hotel the show windows of all stores -including the big proud ones like Wing On, Sincere, Sun Sun and the Sun-are plastered with posters which shout: 'We Reduce Prices with Pain!', 'Shop Closing Down', 'Prices Falling Below Cost' . . . Swank stores now offer such unglamorous goods as salted fish, seaweed, salt and crude cooking...
While growing, it expanded into high-style lines for such swank stores as Dallas' own Neiman-Marcus, and into specialties like the stylish maternity gowns made by Dallas' Page Boy (TIME, Sept. 6, 1948). One big Dallas maker, Justin McCarty, Inc., rang up $2,500,000 in 1949 sales with sportswear items. But nothing in Dallas had grown quite as fantastically as Nardis Sportswear, run by high-pressured little Bernard L. Gold...
Next morning police yanked the Sultan of West Borneo out of his suite in the capital's swank Hotel des Indes and hurried him off to confinement in the palace of his rival, the Sultan of Jogjakarta. West Borneo's Sultan, asserted Indonesian intelligence officers, had secretly masterminded Turk Westerling's rebellion...
Martinis & Wisdom. In the end, Shireen collects the wages of sin. She loses her husband and her peace of mind, and is left with nothing but a shrinking money bag, a swank flat, and what passes for wisdom across dollar Martinis: "Man cannot live by caviar alone...
...spring training, Ted's working day begins about 11 a.m. Sometimes he drives direct to the park; other times, his baby-blue Cadillac pulls up first before the swank Hotel Sarasota Terrace, where most of the Sox live. Studiously ignoring the murmurs of the fans which his arrival generally creates, Ted uncoils from behind the wheel and strides head down into the lobby. In natty slacks and sport shirt, but without a hat or tie,* he may pause a moment to chat with the girl behind the cigar counter and to pick up a copy of Sports Afield...