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...Sears, Roebuck's new fall & winter catalogue 250 items were dropped, many ads for accordions, antifreeze, alarm clocks, vacuum bottles, wheelbarrows, etc. were defaced with the legend: "Sorry, not available." Sears was even fresh out of sheets and pillow cases...
...Author. David L. Cohn, 46, one-time national advertising manager of Sears, Roebuck, good friend of Sculptor Jacob Epstein, Dorothy Thompson, Sinclair Lewis and Rebecca West, is now a policy adviser with the British Information Service in Washington. He is a bachelor...
...this month the Encyclopedia Britannica celebrates its 175th birthday. The unique educational institution is not what it used to be. Even its nationality has changed with time. Founded in Scotland, the Britannica now belongs to the University of Chicago, to which it came as a gift from Sears, Roebuck (TIME...
Imperial Industrial Corp., under its portly, bespectacled President Max Kortlander, occupies the third floor of a rambling brick factory in the upper fringes of The Bronx. It seldom advertises, does much of its retailing through big concerns like Sears, Roebuck and Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. Its customers are mostly U.S. farm families. To this small but steady market, Imperial sells approximately half a million pianola rolls a year. Biggest current sellers: When the Lights Go on Again, Moonlight Becomes You, The Beer Barrel Polka, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life, The Star-Spangled...
Last week University of Chicago President Robert Maynard Hutchins announced that Sears had given the Britannica to his university. The transfer itself was logical enough: members of Chicago's philanthropic Rosenwald family, identified with Sears, Roebuck for half a century, have long been generous supporters of the university. Onetime Chairman Julius Rosenwald was responsible for Sears's acquisition of the Britannica in 1920, when it was in such bad financial straits that its priceless plates were about to be sold at auction. What made the deal especially interesting was what Bob Hutchins did not tell about...