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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marcus Marx pioneered as high-volume manufacturers of men's clothing ("One just price and just one price"). They brought out the first honest-to-goodness virgin-wool suits in 1900, and a tropical-weight suit in 1917. About the same time in Rochester, two other clothiers, Jeremiah Hickey and Jacob Freeman, were sewing up their own vested interests. Last week the two companies that these men founded joined hands across the rack in an $11 million stock-swapping merger deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Business: Made to Measure | 7/3/1964 | See Source »

...original Hart, Schaffner and Marx are long gone, but their publicly owned firm under President John D. Gray now does a $107 million manufacturing and retail business, has 101 stores in 43 cities, including Wallachs in Manhattan, Baskin in Chicago, and Stevens in New Orleans. Smaller Hickey-Freeman is still a private family firm, run by President Walter B. D. Hickey (son of Jeremiah) and Vice President Albert Freeman (nephew of Jacob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Business: Made to Measure | 7/3/1964 | See Source »

...merger mates, the two companies are made to measure. While Hart Schaffner suits sell for $80 to $150, Hickey-Freeman specializes in the luxury brackets, with suits retailing at $150 to $235, sports coats at $110 to $215 and vicuna overcoats priced up to $550. Last year it sold $20 million worth of everything, including plenty in its own three stores-F. R. Tripler in Manhattan and Capper & Capper in Chicago and Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Business: Made to Measure | 7/3/1964 | See Source »

Jason Robards, Jr. has the central role of Quentin, surely one of the longest in all drama. Robards' work in the past has varied from a transcendent Hickey in O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh to an abysmal attempt at Macbeth. But here he is playing at his best--a performance of enormous power and rich detail. At first I felt his diction was too monochromatic. But the wisdom of this became apparent when he burst forth later in the argument over tattling to Congress, or reacted to the news of Lou's suicide, or carried on the climactic battle...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Arthur Miller's Comeback | 1/27/1964 | See Source »

...losses), put in ten years with the San Francisco 49ers. Everyone agreed that he could pass, but he was no twinkle toes as a runner, and when the 49ers shifted to a ground game last year, he was traded to the Giants. "Hindsight," says San Francisco Coach Red Hickey mournfully, "is always clearer than foresight." Against the Pittsburgh Steelers in the season's second game. Tittle got the kind of protection a passer needs, completed ten of twelve passes for a 17-14 victory that started the Giants on the road to the Eastern Conference championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Bald Eagle | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

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