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Appliance dealers complain that Westinghouse is not keeping pace with the competition. In a high-income highly competitive market, appliances have become increasingly faddist and highly styled, and the company that hesitates to change is lost. Many dealers feel that Westinghouse has moved too slowly. For example, most of Westinghouse's competitors brought out a "hot leader," a $199 refrigerator. By the time Westinghouse finally got around to a $199 refrigerator of its own, dealers said that it was too late. The field was flooded...
...bookshop, leaves the day-to-day operations to son Richard, 42, and to daughter Christina, 40, who has inherited her father's flair for bookish ballyhoo. She presides over Foyle's monthly literary lunches, where new books are launched and authors are publicized. When Health Faddist Gayelord Hauser (Look Younger, Live Longer) appeared, she surrounded him with leaders of church, stage and business, and every one of them was over 80. Once when George Bernard Shaw was slated to speak, he was asked if he wanted a vegetarian menu. Said Shaw: "No, the thought of 2,000 people...
...platoon leader (John Agar). Unlike Battleground, which it most resembles, Breakthrough makes no bones about recruiting its soldiers from Central Casting and assigning them to spell the carnage with a few vaudeville turns. One infantryman is a vaudevillian who does imitations of movie stars; another is a musclebound health faddist whose casual rejection of a man-eating mademoiselle's advances comes straight out of Li'l Abner...
...Founder Julius Garfinckel opened his shop on Washington's F Street in 1905. He stocked it with such things as French handbags, fine furs, lingerie and jewelry, built up such prestige that Garfinckel's soon became the most fashionable store in the capital. A vegetarian and health faddist, he kept his office desk on an open-air terrace except in coldest winter. He built his business to a gross of $3.2 million without ever running display advertisements in a newspaper or magazine...
Pipe smoking has some drawbacks which even a 'Cliffedwelling faddist will admit to. Two of them bumped into a Boston Post reporter last spring. The astonished scribe was moved to comment, "The only thing that showed the girls still had their marbles was that they refused to divulge their names...