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...retiring Walter Hoving prepared to undertake what he mysteriously described as "an amalgamation of department stores and other retail properties" outside New York, Lord & Taylor announced that plans would go forward for expansion inside the city limits. It will open ten branches in outlying metropolitan districts, a new uptown Fifth Avenue store, close to Rockefeller Center and Best & Co.'s new store. In carrying out this expansion, Dorothy Shaver will have the help of able Van Buren Sims, first vice president. What Dorothy Shaver's uptown store will look like, no outsider knows. But New Yorkers will expect...
...Columbia's square-set President Nicholas Murray Butler sat next a judge of the State Supreme Court in the uptown elevated. "Judge Gildersleeve," said he, "I have good news for you. I've just decided to make your daughter dean of Barnard." The judge considered his verdict carefully. "I am not surprised," he said at last. "Virginia will make you a good dean...
Brown, bosomy Hazel Scott attained fame by changing Bach's stately counter-point into boogie-woogie at Manhattan's Café Society Uptown. Last week Pianist Scott considerably enhanced her fame and earning power by not changing the stately D.A.R...
...Uptown & Cross-Country. The keystone of Dorothy Thackrey's enterprises is the 144-year-old New York Post, which William Cullen Bryant once edited. The paper was a consistent money loser from...
...Municipal ("poor man's") Court, the slight, grey-haired judge listened to many and varied complaints. (Sample: an indignant woman, exhibiting her ill-fitting false teeth, demanded a refund from her dentist.) The day's weary business done, the judge climbed from the bench and went uptown to his avocation: conducting 100 amateur musicians. Judge Leopold Prince was rehearsing his City Amateur Symphony Orchestra for the season's first summer concert...