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...Besides the main store in San Francisco, it has shops in Seattle and in such California cities as Los Angeles, Pasadena, Hollywood, Santa Barbara, Oakland, Del Monte, Coronado. In a few stores there are collegegirl departments, similar to the debutante departments in big Manhattan specialty shops like Bonwit Teller's and Saks Fifth Avenue. In these Magnin's sells dresses as low as $22.75. But prices in general are near the top. Highest price ever paid for Magnin's ready-to-wear apparel was $1,500 for a dyed ermine suit with cloth-of-gold blouse, bought...
Divorced, Floyd Bostwick Odium, president of Atlas Corp., $100,000,000 investment trust; by Mrs. Hortense McQuarrie Odium, president of Atlas Corp.'s swank Fifth Avenue department store, Bonwit Teller; in Minden, Nev. Grounds: extreme cruelty. Three days before her decree was granted in Nevada, Bonwit Teller gave a party for Mrs. Odium in Manhattan, to celebrate her first year as store-head...
...investment advice to women.* It was not going to conduct a woman's lobby in Washington, at least for the present. But it was going after membership. Proof of this fact was the Organizing Committee whose most prominent member is Mrs. Hortense Odium, president of Manhattan's Bonwit, Teller & Co. (clothes), wife of Investment Truster Floyd B. Odium of Atlas Corp. Legal counsellor is Mrs. Jean Nelson Penfield, New York attorney and onetime suffragette. National Director is Radio Lecturer Cathrine Curtis who claims she first decided to educate women investors when she overheard a dowager exclaim...
...Street (3½ mi.), Mrs. Odlum was 42, mother of two sons, sprightly wife of the head of the biggest investment trust in the U. S. but still a Westerner in speech and manner. And her husband gave her a present. Hortense McQuarrie Odlum was duly elected president of Bonwit Teller, big Manhattan smartshop...
...four Depression years Mr. Odlum of necessity picked up a rag, tag & bobtail assortment of assets along with the stocks & bonds of hundreds of major U. S. corporations. Among the barge lines, furniture factories, Long Island estates, vacant lots, amusement parks and fruit ranches was Bonwit Teller. Founder Paul J. Bonwit borrowed money from Ungerleider Financial Corp. to move up Fifth Avenue from 38th Street to 56th Street in 1930. As times went from bad to worse the store fell into the hands of Ungerleider; from Ungerleider, into the hands of Mr. Odlum. Bonwit Teller differed from the other Odlum...