Word: ince
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...facing the hard facts. "Up to this point," Jessop recalls, "San Diego was only penny ante. If you asked them for a contribution, they wrote you a check for $200." Jessop demanded-and got-$100,000 "for a start." With it, on May 1, 1959, they formed San Diegans Inc...
...however, the trade applauded Mildred Custin's promotion: in the idiom of fashion, her career has been simply divine. Born in New Hampshire, she went to Simmons College in Boston, was later hired by Boston's now defunct R. H. White Co. She then joined John Wanamaker, Inc. and rose to become its Philadelphia store's first woman vice president. Picked as Bonwit Teller of Philadelphia's president in 1958, she revived a dying downtown store with arresting windows and lavish interiors, raised sales 26.6%. Admiring Philadelphia merchants named...
This dedication did not escape Maxey Jarman, the Nashville corporate builder whose giant Genesco Inc. (annual sales: $589 million) owns Bonwit's and 63 other apparel companies. Jarman likes to have women executives around: he picked Jerry Stutz for Henri Bendel, also a Genesco subsidiary, and his House of Fragrance perfume and cosmetic company is headed by President Helen Van Slyke. "Women who are interested in a career and have a feminine viewpoint," says Jarman, "usually have intuitiveness as well as good promotion and advertising sense." Casting around for a new boss to replace resigning William L. Smith, Jarman...
Fifth Avenue Coach 63% Alside, Inc. 57% Dymo Industries 54% High Voltage Engineering 51% Berman Leasing 49% American Photocopy 46% Helene Curtis 45% American Crystal Sugar 42% Technical Materiel 41% Wesco Financial...
Died. Frank Mozley Stevens, 84, president of Harry M. Stevens Inc., the nation's greatest purveyor of food to sports fans, who expanded his father's hot-dog concessions into a $20 million annual feast at 45 tracks including the caviar and peach Melbas served at such fancy beaneries as the Diamond Club at the New York Mets' Shea Stadium and a soon-to-open splendor at Florida's Hialeah race track; after a long illness; in Manhattan...