Word: gormley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Filene's has been in business for 61 years, and is testament to the curious fever that infects bargain hunters. Driven by the notion that they are saving while spending, they not only buy more than they need but, as Basement General Merchandise Manager James Gormley says, "they end up spending more money than they would normally." Each day throngs of shoppers-as many as 200,000 at Christmas time-surge through the store's three dungeon-like underground levels, fighting for everything from name-brand nylon panties at 39? a pair to a Russian sable worth...
...Manager Gormley leaves his office to make last-minute checks with some of 800 employees. Eying crowds jammed behind restraining ropes at 13 entrances, he makes certain that nearby telephones are removed from their cradles. On more than one occasion, tense shoppers have stampeded when they mistook a phone ring for the gong announcing basement's opening...
...before mirrors trying on clothes. One woman removes her raincoat, turns seconds later to find another woman trying it on. Since there are no dressing rooms, shoppers pull on three, four dresses, one over the other. Others unashamedly strip to bra and panties. "A few years ago," says Manager Gormley, "so many men were spending lunch hours staring down at the women from the stairwell that we had to build partitions...
...Basement closes. Stockboys begin job of cleaning up mounds of hangers and dresses on floor. Gormley checks day's receipts (close to $300,000): "All in all, a fairly routine...
...Newman and assistant surgeons cut out the clot-plugged section of aorta and replaced it with a Dacron graft. Now Gormley's feet and legs are no longer cold. His blood pressure is down to a healthy 130/80, and last week he was recuperating in Ogden, Utah, taking short walks to rebuild his strength. The man who should have been dead had made medical history. His is the first known case in which such generous collateral circulation compensated for a complete shutdown in the aorta...