Word: gormanic
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...hottest TV star in Tucson, Ariz., has a Trendex rating of zero. Equity has never heard of him. But to housewives in a 17-story, 411-apartment complex called Tucson House, Joseph J. Gorman is bigger than Judy Garland. Gorman is a grocer whose market, located in the new $6,500,000 building's basement, is hooked into a closed-circuit television system that gives its built-in audience laughs, punditry and laid-yesterday eggs at a moment's notice...
...Tucson House shopper simply summons Gorman by telephone, then switches her set to Channel 2. Is the lettuce crisp? The corn ripe? She can inspect each item as closely as could be without actual melon tunking or peach squeezing. Gorman rings up the order under her watchful eye, then hangs up the phone. The groceries are delivered within minutes. The lady need never get dressed. Gorman cannot inspect...
WILLIAM D. GORMAN Bayonne...
Bean rules his board of directors-two sons and two grandsons-with a firm hand, and brushes aside suggestions from his heir apparent, Grandson Leon Gorman, 27, that the company "automate" by buying an Addressograph. "Why expand when you're 90 years old?" demands Bean. Besides, "I get three good meals a day, and I can't eat four." Devoted to quality and his customers, Bean has a simple business philosophy...
Family life at the Harringtons' is one long parental tug-of-war in which the children serve as the rope. The daughter (Annette Gorman), a sunny child just turning into her teens, seems able to stand the strain. But the son (Richard Beymer), an unstable boy in his first year at Harvard, starts to come apart as mother tries to get him away from father, and father tries to get him away from Harvard and into the furniture business...