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Their styles of operation are almost as different as the men themselves. Bing, stern and aloof, is a caste-conscious, immaculately tailored autocrat invariably trailed by a deferential retinue, Sir Rudolf to almost everyone. Gentele, 54, hale and smiling, is a democrat in a loose-fitting sports jacket who makes it his business to know everyone down to stagehands and chorus members, many of whom simply call him Goeran...
...fashionable Bergdorf-Goodman, outfitter to many of New York's best-dressed women for 71 years, finally found a Mr. Right last week. As the Federal Trade Commission gave its long-awaited approval, the store was sold for $12.6 million in stock to Edward Carter's Broadway-Hale group of Los Angeles. The deal swallowed one of the nation's few remaining well-known independent merchants, though the prestigious Bergdorf store will keep a separate identity and its own label. The FTC evidently decided that any attempt to block the sale, on the grounds that it reduced...
Eastward Ho. The ultimate deal rang up yet another remarkable achievement for Ed Carter, Broadway-Hale's soft-spoken chairman, whose personal tastes for quality run to driving a black Jaguar and collecting 17th century Flemish paintings. Since he signed on with Los Angeles' three-store Broadway chain in 1946, Harvard-trained Carter has built it into a group of 60 stores with annual sales of $755 million. Bucking the discount trend in the '60s, he concentrated on quality merchandise; three years ago, he persuaded the FTC to approve Broadway-Hale's purchase of Dallas-based...
...Kenneth Hale, Dept. of Linguistics M.I.T...
Screenplay by JOHN HALE...