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...design with the world, but he probably didn't think he would be setting a fashion trend. The Wiener Werkstätte and the Secessionist movement that came out of Vienna in the early 20th century are influencing fashion and home design. Fabric manufacturer Maharam has reissued the fabrics of Dagobert Peche, and young designers like Proenza Schouler are picking up on the colors and graphic detail of the period...
Mack's directors knew one way out: change the management. Out of the presidency went Charles T. Ruhf, a 40-year Mack employee and president since 1943. In as $100,000-a-year president and chairman went Edwin Dagobert Bransome, 57, a Mack director and a rough & ready executive who had put one other wobbly company back on its feet. Last week President Bransome proved that the name Mack was again synonymous with strength. In 1950, he reported, Mack's sales jumped nearly 50% to $123 million, its net to $1.3 million...
...make matters worse, his dead father, famed Sir Dagobert, had always been a very model of knighthood, had throttled a hawk at the age of two, killed a wild boar at six. Willie wasn't impressed by such accounts, but his mother, the Dame de Littlehampton, wouldn't let him forget them; she was the kind of lady who expected her only son to make his mark on the armor and the life expectancy of his foes. When she hustled poor, terrified Willie off to join King Richard's crusade in the Holy Land, militant Christianity enlisted...
...DIARY AND SUNDRY OBSERVATIONS OF THOMAS A. EDISON (247 pp.)-Edited by Dagobert D. Runes-Philosophical Library...
...company got a new president, stocky, pink-jowled Edwin Dagobert Bransome. No engineer, Bransome pulled the company out of a financial hole. It promptly earned a profit of $152,000, Vanadium's first in six years. By 1944 Bransome was able to report to his stock holders that Vanadium had cleared $459,00 on gross sales of $16 million...