M is for the millions who'll be deluged.
O is for the oddball things they'll get
(Neiman-Marcus' carrying case for Mom's contact lenses; Tiffany's sterling vermeil decorative rose for $110).
T is for the tremendous business volume (more than $1 billion).
H is for the heavy push on Dad.
E is for the easy credit payments.
R is for the rancor that it spreads.
Put them all together, and they spell the biggest, boomingest Mother's Day spree (May 14) since Oedipus wrecked Thebes. On the business side, the nation's retailers, urged loudly on by the National Committee on the Observance of Mother's Day, last...
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