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...fiscal year ended July 3 1, sales of Genesco's various divisions (Bonwit Teller, I. Miller, Flagg Bros. Shoes) reached a record $1.4 billion, but the company lost $53 million. To stop the drain, Franklin has decided to close 100 women's shoe stores, to sell an Italian men's clothing firm, and is even unloading the 347-unit S.H. Kress variety store chain. He has already shut down three textile plants in Tennessee and North Carolina. Together, these operations accounted for $18 million of the fiscal-1973 red ink. From now on, says Frank the Knife...
...WOOLSEY TELLER...
...Medeia. While this anonymous poet is only a neutral observer, he tries desperately to alter the course of events by reconciling the couple. Only Medeia can see him, and she thinks he's a devil. Gardner's helpless narrator is the hilarious antithesis to the traditional omniscient, omnipotent story-teller. At one point he is actually transformed into flesh and almost killed in a Corinthian slave uprising. While this clown stumbles about Corinth like Jimmy Olson, cub reporter for the Daily Planet, Superman Gardner delves into more universal themes, mustering all of his authorial prowess to drastically alter the mythic...
...Cambodia, where virtually everyone has a favorite fortune teller, the advice of astrologers often determines whether armies advance, governments fall or prime ministers take trips. When rebels bombed his presidential palace recently, Marshal Lon Nol was rumored to have fired some of his senior soothsayers. Last week TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand ventured into the back streets of Phnom-Penh to visit a gray-haired old astrologer whose clients include the marshal himself. Hillenbrand's report...
...bookings to bring foreign tourists into the U.S. this year, triple the number in 1972. The American Express credit card gained a million new holders last year, increasing its membership to 5,000,000, partly by signing up such U.S. department stores as Macy's and Bonwit Teller, in addition to hotels and restaurants. Indeed the "Money Card" has become the most widely held among the so-called "travel and entertainment" cards. As a result, Diners Club (1,850,000 holders) and Carte Blanche (700,000) have lately begun advertising their cards as supplements, rather than competitors...