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First, Lazarus offered to buy out Houston's old Foley Bros. Dry Goods Co. When the firm refused to sell, Lazarus bought a store site, threatened to come in as a competitor. Worried Foley's then sold for $4,300,000. (Lazarus also got an option on another site tagged at $1,250,000, talked Woolworth's into buying it for $3,000,000.) With Foley's he plans to test his newest theory that department stores must mechanize or operating costs will zoom when the current abnormal volume falls...
...crusading publisher of two small Vermont dailies, had taken-over in Manchester-and to help swing the $1,250,000 deal (he had put up only $250,000 of his own) had invited in a trio of shrewd news tycoons that New Hampshire had hardly heard of: the Ridder Bros., of New York and points west, whose favorite reading matter is not headlines but balance sheets...
...Patsy. In Detroit, neighbors of the Kramer Bros. trucking company, aroused by the drivers' "loud profanity," got a court order restraining them from saying anything stronger than "for pity's sake...
...between nine performances, or maybe it was twelve, of Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto, "I've Always Loved You" concerns itself with the silliest three people of recent screen history. If it had been played by the Marx Bros., the picture might have had a certain drollness. As it is, played in grim earnest by Philip Dorn, Catherine McLeod, and William Carter, it is slightly hideous...
Nobody Lives Forever (Warner) prompts the suspicion that Warner Bros.' long cycle of expertly documented gangster films - now running into its 16th profitable year-may never...