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Part of Korvette's mounting success consisted in riding a trend. In the early '503, Gene Ferkauf was only one of many brash young discounters onto a good new thing. A retailing upheaval was under way. The nationwide move to the suburbs was undercutting the downtown department stores. Not having their money tied up in huge and costly property, the discounters moved out to where the housewives and buyers were, catered to the car-borne family trade by providing huge parking lots, kept night hours, and sold on Sundays. The typical discount center became part supermarket, part department...
...biggest yuk to hit television since Sid Caesar's salad wilted is a Goofy-Cousin-Clara sort of a girl with a grin full of teeth, a manner both tentative and brash, and a talent that comes bubbling up every time she opens her big mouth, shakes a leg, or crosses an eye. Carol Burnett, 29, who last week shared the podium with Julie Andrews in a TV special called Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall, has a warmth that neither coaxial cable nor gloom of darkened living room can dim. She is even funny away from the camera...
Eddy Gilbert was always fond of telling people what great things he could do, and sometimes he did them. As a brash, icy-eyed youngster of 24. he decided he wanted control of Memphis' E.L. Bruce Co., a leading manufacturer of hardwood products. Ten years later, in 1958, he won control of the company after a go-for-broke battle that established him as one of Wall Street's boy wonders. Eddy, who once showed up at a costume party as Napoleon, assured friends that this was only the beginning. He intended, he said, to use Bruce...
...Definite & Final." The Rockefeller whom the Democrats seem afraid to face is a different man from the brash young millionaire who upset Harriman...
...idea was far from new, but much of the U.S. press recorded every bellowing boast from the council's man-in-charge-of-the-tickets, brash George L. Singelmann, 46. a personal aide to excommunicated Segregationist Leander Perez...