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...years, Morton D. May, president of May Department Stores' St. Louis-based chain of 35 stores, and Robert H. Levi, president of Baltimore's and Washington's Hecht Co., have kept their stores on friendly terms, swapping ideas about retailing trends. Last week the long friendship blossomed: May and Hecht announced a merger of the two chains and termed it "the biggest in retail history." The new company's president: energetic "Buster...
Robert R. Bowie, Director of the Center for International Affairs, Henry A. Kissenger, Associate Director of the Center for International Affairs, Edward L. Katzenbach, Director of the Harvard Defense Studies Program, and Morton G. White, professor of Philosophy, will represent Harvard during the week-long activities...
...team of three men with widely varied experience in show business: Composer (You and I, Two in Love] and oldtime Radio Performer Meredith Willson, 56, the jovial lowan who in his first try for the theater wrote book, music and lyrics; Director (No Time for Sergeants, Auntie Mame) Morton Da Costa, 44, who gave the show its sparkle and pace; and the Music Man himself, longtime Cinemactor Robert Preston, 40, known vaguely to millions of moviegoers for years as the handsome, thick-browed heavy of B pictures who rarely got the girl...
...TRAVEL (567 pp.)-Henry James-Edited by Morton Dauwen Za-bel-Doubleday...
...cultural relativist, full, as he put it, of "the baleful spirit of the cosmopolite-that uncomfortable consequence of seeing many lands and feeling at home in none." The virtue of that defect, as James saw it, was tolerance. Compared to Twain's polemic, The Art of Travel, Critic Morton Dauwen Zabel's splendidly edited sampling of James's travel pieces on England, France, Italy and the U.S., is sunny-tempered and severely self-controlled...