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Never Too Late, by Sumner Arthur Long, is pulverizingly funny about a piffling subject-belated fatherhood. The men who drive this comic troika are Actors Paul Ford and Orson Bean and that genius of slapstick farce, Director George Abbott...
...catalogue, which is mailed twice yearly to 400,000 customers, is Bean's most potent sales weapon. Its best known item is the "Maine Hunting Boot'' ($11.35 to $23.85), which has a rubber bottom stitched to a leather top. "We know how important those boots are to a man," says L. L. Bean. "He might like them better than his wife." Hunters last year bought 16,000 pairs...
Grandma's Attic. It was the Maine hunting boot that put Leon Leonwood Bean in business. The son of a Yankee horse trader, he drifted from job to job until 1911 when the boot idea struck him as he slogged wet-footed in leather boots through the Maine woods. Helped by a $400 loan from his brother Otho, he set up shop. The Freeport factory expanded steadily but haphazardly, and today it looks like a cross between Grandma's attic and a broken roller coaster. Dumbwaiters hesitantly carry materials from floor to floor through a mazelike production line...
...Bean's 115 workers also get an annual bonus, which last year amounted to 30% of wages...
...Bean rules his board of directors-two sons and two grandsons-with a firm hand, and brushes aside suggestions from his heir apparent, Grandson Leon Gorman, 27, that the company "automate" by buying an Addressograph. "Why expand when you're 90 years old?" demands Bean. Besides, "I get three good meals a day, and I can't eat four." Devoted to quality and his customers, Bean has a simple business philosophy...