Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dick: Wait a minute-there's no trip-around-the-world contest...
...Dick: Then there's no contest...
...that they pull off these bum mots with such a deceptive air of wide-eyed innocence that the cornier the material, the louder the laughs. A more apt name for them would be the Mothers' Brothers. "We attract the kind of fans that want to mother us," says Dick, 28. "We're so college-looking and clean-cut," says Tom, 30. "The American Legion likes us and so does the left wing." And so does every wing of the younger generation. The boys have the jug-eared look of Nebraska citybillies, or malt-shop cowboys. Even when they...
...next decade expects to double sales that have already doubled in the past ten years or so. Rich's now outsells any department store south of New York City and east of St. Louis. "We do a big high-fashion business and a big bargain-basement business," says Dick Rich, "and we try to catch everything in between as well." "In between" represents about 60% of the purchases made by the 75,000 customers who crowd into Rich's stores on an average day. Although most are Atlantans, Rich's considers nine Southeastern states as its secondary...
Generous to Each Other. The store takes such attitudes, says Dick Rich, because "this community has been very good to us." Rich's is rather generous to the community in return. When Atlanta had to pay its schoolteachers in scrip during the Depression, Rich's exchanged the scrip for money. When the Winecoff Hotel burned in 1946 with the loss of 119 lives, Rich's handed out free clothes to survivors and provided shrouds for the dead. Atlanta's biggest Christmas tree is a 60-footer atop the four-story Forsyth Street bridge connecting Rich...