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Lewis engineered the rise of TLC through two major buyouts. In 1983, he led a $22.5 million buyout of McCall PatternCo., a dress-pattern maker which he sold to aBritish business four years later for $63 million...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HLS Donor Lewis, 50, Dies | 1/20/1993 | See Source »

...Angeles department store, a salesgirl took from her purse a paper bearing the letters V, M, B and S. Beside each, she scribbled numbers, then mailed the sheet to Manhattan's Simplicity Pattern Co. She was reporting on dress-pattern sales in her department - strictly as a favor to the flattering Simplicity salesman who had presented her with a smile and a shiny silver compact. In 100 key U.S. stores, other girls did Simplicity a like favor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Pattern for Success | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

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