Word: salesgirls
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...assigned with furious abandon (September's determination to find just the right beaded bag Minnie-Louise gave way to mid-December's impulse to settle for the first handkerchief displayed on the first counter passed). Old friends were elbowed aside in favor of a moment from the salesgirl, debutantes came out and went back in again and tuxedos were hauled out from attics and demothed. Christmas everywhere was clearly just around the corner, no matter where the corner...
...younger. Today the Ivory Coast's First Lady is coifed by one of the most exclusive Parisian hair dressers (Carita), and dressed by Dior, whose salon is strategically located across the street from the Houphouet-Boignys' apartment. She prefers pastels and bright colors and, says her Dior salesgirl, "would never touch anything black." The affluent Houphouet-Boignys also have a villa in the stylish Swiss resort of Gstaad (her six-year-old adopted daughter, Hélène, is attending school in Switzerland), an Ivory Coast beach house, an ultramodern five-story tower in the fashionable Cocody...
...department stores, Christmas planning starts just about the time that the kids are breaking their first Christmas toys-the day after Christmas past. The long preparations begin with studies of sales slips, to determine what sold well, what proved a bomb. After that come committee meetings, buyers' meetings, salesgirl meetings. By mid-January, buyers are packed and jetting off around the U.S. and to faraway countries to find merchandise and to place orders. When shipments arrive, some stores slip a few new items on the counters to see how they sell; if customers pick them up, the items...
...trends are valiantly appearing. A salesgirl in the Coop spoke lovingly new round playing cards which were so popular that the store couldn't keep them in stock." There was a gleam of enthusiasm in her eyes and a growing momentum of rapture in her voice. With trembling fingers she opened a catalogue and showed their picture. "We're not re-ordering them the saleslady next to her stated definitively...
...best German Weinbrand at the same price gathers dust.* From tiny Fiats to elegant Ferraris, some 400,000 imported cars have been sold in West Germany. In a posh Dusseldorf shoe salon last week, a matron, eyeing the latest square-toed model, snapped: "Is It Italian?" Replied the salesgirl: "Madam, we sell only Italian shoes." German sausage and French pate are pouring into Belgium at twice the pre-1958 rate. One of Brussels' largest stores laid on a Common Market exhibi tion earlier this year called "Europe on Your Plate." Supplies were cleaned...