Word: jarman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through much of his business life, Jarman has moved with a single-minded purpose-to build a company that could clothe men, women and children from head to toe. and become the General Motors of the apparel industry...
...Purpose. Genesco was stitched together by Chairman Walton Maxey Jarman, 58, an introspective Baptist deacon whose favorite pastime is rereading the works of Thomas Mann. Impatient with the faults of others, Jarman also harbors a nagging concern that he may not understand himself, once took a battery of company psychological tests under an assumed name. The psychologists' verdict: Jarman was too shy and self-conscious ever to deal successfully with people, and would be a failure in management...
...they felt that Christianity needed a new nondenominational magazine, not-so liberal as the old and prestigious Christian Century (circ. 37,500). Bell organized a committee of clerical sponsors, raised the capital funds from a number of millionaire Protestant laymen, including Oilman J. Howard Pew and Chairman Maxey Jarman of GENESCO, Inc., who still make up most of the magazine's annual $225,000 deficit. To edit the new magazine Graham's committee chose Baptist Professor Carl Henry, 49, of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena. He agreed to take on the job for a year "to get things...