Word: garment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody can roast tiger (two-legged, money-hungry variety) with the searing yellow flame that Jerome Weidman uses. In his first novel, I Can Get It For You Wholesale, and a sequel, Weidman barbecued some of the pin-striped denizens of Manhattan's garment district. In his latest (and sixth) novel, the tiger wears tweeds and its hunting grounds are the knotty-pine fastnesses of a Madison Avenue newspaper syndicate; but when the price is right, the beast still shows its breed...
...this time she wore a Hattie Carnegie creation ("I'll have to sell a lot of my own to pay for it"). The big occasion: Nellie's party to celebrate the opening of her new $1,000,000 factory. Said Nellie proudly: "It's the biggest garment factory in the world under one roof...
Paul Donnelly, credit manager for a shoe company, made her a housewife at 17, and she began making neat, ruffled little "apron frocks" for herself. She decided to start the Donnelly Garment Co. -with $1,270 in savings and two power sewing machines-after a Kansas City store sold out a test order of Nellie's dresses in a few hours. Before long the business was grossing $1,000,000. After that, nothing slowed her up much...
This is not all altruism: there is no union at Nellie's, despite the determined efforts of Dave Dubinsky's International Ladies Garment Workers Union to organize the plant. Nellie has made sure that her employees see no need to join...
Shelley was born in East St. Louis, Ill., went through Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn, modeled in Manhattan's garment district, had a fling at musi-comedy and horse operas. In Larceny, she worked with a young director (George Sherman) and two writers fresh from radio (Herbert Margolis and Louis Morheim) who let her try Tory her own way. She gave it a strong blend of sex, humor, loneliness and desperation. A fair percentage of males in any audience might be scared of Tory, but few would run away...