Mary Livingstone was working as a lingerie salesgirl here when she met her future husband Jack Benny. Later, the department store was used as a setting in his radio and television shows.
Today, the May company does business under a variety of different names. The divisions are listed along with the date they were acquired, the location of their headquarters if not St. Louis, and the states in which they do business:
Peter Taylor's illness, and now death from cancer at the age of 66, has deprived the nation of good leadership and good judgement from the first Lord Chief, Justice to see himself as accountable not only to the law, but to the public as well.
LordTaylor stepped into the breach, throwing the - weight of the judiciary behind the propositions (so unattractive to writers of newspaper editorials) that criminals should be treated fairly, and that failure to catch them is generally the fault of clue- less policemen, not clever lawyers or liberal judges.
At the time Taylor took office, his experience included the humbling discovery that one man he had successfully and confidently prosecuted for rape, and put away for many years, had been proved by unassailable DNA tests to be innocent.