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While quite a few suppliers are still cautiously providing goods to Bloomingdale's and other Campeau subsidiaries, the threat of new cutoffs hangs over the stores. Notes Bert Hand, president of Hartmarx: "These stores are going to end up somewhere, whether in the current organization or under new ownership. Either way, we want to make sure that we don't lose continuity. But on the other hand, we can't put ourselves in too much risk...
...works were often funny -- the two battered tramps of Godot might have been written for Laurel and Hardy and were in fact played by Bert Lahr and Tom Ewell, Robin Williams and Steve Martin -- but the humor intensified the sadness. In the play's most vivid and haunting image, one character cries out about all mankind, "They give birth astride of a grave." Beckett regarded himself as a sort of historian, a chronicler of misbegotten times. "I didn't invent this buzzing confusion," he said. "It's all around us, and . . . the only chance of renewal is to open...
...change Government and airline policies and win compensation for their loss. Embittered after countless run-ins with unresponsive and evasive officials, their early efforts to lobby for improved airline safety quickly hardened into demands for the British, German and U.S. governments to disclose what they know about the bombing. Bert Ammerman, a high school assistant principal who lost his brother Tom and now heads a group called Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, calls Washington a "cesspool of unaccountability." After months of lobbying Congress and a meeting with President Bush, the families finally persuaded the Administration to establish a Commission...
...expressed in two electric words: pennant races. The daily games through September and the all-or-nothing arithmetic of a sport still unsullied by complex playoff pairings give baseball a dramatic structure without parallel. Last week, as the California Angels gamely struggled to overtake the Oakland A's, Bert Blyleven, the bearded 38-year-old ace of the pitching staff, said, "This is what everybody plays for, to go into the last week of the season and have the games make a difference...
...Rodney Taylor Tackle Gerald Mahon Tom Callahan Gerald Pecora Mike Zweber Guard Buz Crain Steve Connolly Mike Sukal Joe Zupanic Center Mike Bertuccio Darrin Duda Josh Fischer Quarterback Tim Perry Chris Salvaterra Pete Bassett A. Lazarre-White Tom Priore Fullback Art McMahon Chuck Greene Wingback Jim Reidy David Haller Bert Smyers Halfback Silas Myers Arthony Cutone Andy Belll David...