Word: lachman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past dozen years, the prime mover behind Bloomingdale's has been Marvin Traub, 50, co-leader with Chairman Lawrence Lachman of what has become known throughout U.S. retailing as "the Bloomingdale's gang." Traub, the son of a corsetmaker, was wounded in World War II and came back with one leg shorter than the other; he wears a built-up shoe yet walks briskly and jogs ten minutes daily before leaving his Tudor-style home in Scarsdale. After graduating from Harvard Business School in 1949, he went to work briefly for Alexander's at $100 a week as an assistant...
...cigar packer who had immigrated to the U.S. from Russia, Revson started out in the cosmetics business in Manhattan during the unglamorous Depression year of 1932. With $300 borrowed from loan sharks-at 24% interest-Charles and his older brother Joseph joined forces with a chemist named Charles Lachman, who was to become the l in Revlon. Working out of a rented room on the West Side, the three began making a creamy, opaque, nonstreak nail polish that Lachman had developed. Initially, they sold to beauty parlors, which were then enjoying a boom because of the popularity of the permanent...
Screenplay by MELVILLE SHAVELSON and MORT LACHMAN...
...suburban phenomenon. It began to catch on in the late '50s in the South and Midwest, but the real boom began in the late '60s with the decline of the inner cities and the rising fear of crime. In the Washington, D.C., area, notes Actor Walt Lachman, a dozen suburban restaurant-theaters sprang up after the riots of 1968. "The white middle-class dollar was not coming downtown after that," says Lachman, "and the theater needs that suburban dollar to survive...
...most cities the questionnaire met with no serious objections, but in New York City it did. Protesting teachers and parents wondered whether the questionnaire was more likely to instill or reinforce troublesome racial attitudes than to measure them. Board of Education President Seymour Lachman graded the questionnaire "polarizing . . . inflammatory and racist." When HEW drew up a slightly modified version to administer this spring, the chorus of complaints quickly resumed...