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...jokester who cracks that a man is "allergic to his wife," or "allergic to his job" may be on sound scientific ground, says Swartz. Unhappiness at home or office can cause allergic reaction that results, for instance, in asthma. Swartz tells of a garment manufacturer whose asthma became almost unbearable every spring, and then improved in the fall. It was not a case of pollen sensitivity, as the victim thought, but worry over his business sense. In March he made up his samples and started to worry; by September, he knew that his judgment about them had been all right...
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...