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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fiscal year ended July 3 1, sales of Genesco's various divisions (Bonwit Teller, I. Miller, Flagg Bros. Shoes) reached a record $1.4 billion, but the company lost $53 million. To stop the drain, Franklin has decided to close 100 women's shoe stores, to sell an Italian men's clothing firm, and is even unloading the 347-unit S.H. Kress variety store chain. He has already shut down three textile plants in Tennessee and North Carolina. Together, these operations accounted for $18 million of the fiscal-1973 red ink. From now on, says Frank the Knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Nashville Knife | 10/22/1973 | See Source »

...Your article on McDonald's hamburgers was great, but I would appreciate your using this letter so that I may clarify a couple of points. Ray Kroc stated that he forced McDonald Bros, to remove the name McDonald's from the unit we retained in San Bernardino, Calif. The facts are that we took the name off the building and removed the arches immediately upon the closing of the sale of our company to Kroc and associates in December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 8, 1973 | 10/8/1973 | See Source »

...over to a couple of longtime employees of ours who operated the drive-in for seven years. Ray Kroc was always a great prankster and probably couldn't resist the temptation to needle me. I am sure that he knows that if there had not been any McDonald Bros., he would probably still be selling milkshake machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 8, 1973 | 10/8/1973 | See Source »

Shot in Hong Kong by Warner Bros., Enter the Dragon is made - in English - with Hollywood expertise and a certain rather lighthearted affection for the excesses and silliness of the whole Kung Fu genre. During one of the hero's few moments of repose, he advises a pupil who wants to learn the secrets of personal combat: "Feel - don't think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Compound Fracture | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

...estate boasted a nine-hole golf course, 10,000 potted plants, and well placed sand that enabled the family pooch to visit the trees without getting his paws dirty. House guests received a list of activities each morning, new movies were shown at night, and once the entire Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey Circus was brought in for an afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RICH: Post Hostess with the Mostest | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

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