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Through much of his business life, Jarman has moved with a single-minded purpose-to build a company that could clothe men, women and children from head to toe. and become the General Motors of the apparel industry...
...that dress belonged to his wife Nancy." Years before, as a youth on his first date, Allen had taken Nancy out. He moved on. Here was a pair of children's wooden Dutch shoes, there a few color slides of castles in Germany, some gay apparel, a brochure about Strat-'ford-on-Avon, a movie camera, a green Michelin guide to Paris, a little girl's dress, picture postcards from Florence, a half-burned evening slipper. "I knew nearly every one of them," said the mayor of Atlanta. "I went to school with some of them...
...selling; fewer than five out of ten department store workers now are salespeople, v. eight out of ten discount house employees.) Discounters will have to learn how to buy, sell (as opposed to mere order taking) and service a broader range of merchandise. Korvette's first venture into apparel sales flopped because its buyers were appliance experts, who knew little about fashion; the company snapped back only after it raided experienced buyers from department stores...
...Discounters, I wish to emphasize, are no longer mere order takers. They are becoming skilled merchandisers. They will rapidly expand and force conventional retailers to adopt their techniques." So saying, Maxwell Henry Gluck, 61, announced that his 279-link Grayson-Robinson apparel and camera-supply chain (expected 1961 sales: more than $75 million) will open 25 new discount outlets, from Seattle to Miami, by year's end. Long since recovered from the trauma of his ambassadorship to Ceylon-he won derisive headlines in 1957 for his inability to remember at a Senate confirmation hearing the name of Ceylon...
...Overlapping Life. Their new life has not been easy. "We can't overindulge in alcohol, for obvious reasons; we can't haunt night clubs that feature sensational dance lines and limited apparel (usually stimulating to a man, they would be even more so to a man living as a 'brother'). We try to limit and strongly curtail our association with the 'sophisticated' set who enjoy the more worldly plays and movies and delight in passing on a somewhat spicy story . . . You can't maintain a close relationship with a quantity of cocktails behind...