Word: leon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wives v. Boots. Founder and autocratic boss of this Down-East Abercrombie & Fitch is L. L. (for Leon Leonwood) Bean, 90, a crusty Yankee who is more woodsman than businessman. Bean still works vigorously each day in a glassed-in office amidst the production line, is proud of the fact that he has bagged 35 deer in his lifetime. ("That's a lot of deer, son. You can get only one a year, you know.") He personally edits each entry in the Bean mail-order catalogue, and his spare, disarming style has been used in advertising textbooks as exemplary...
Grandma's Attic. It was the Maine hunting boot that put Leon Leonwood Bean in business. The son of a Yankee horse trader, he drifted from job to job until 1911 when the boot idea struck him as he slogged wet-footed in leather boots through the Maine woods. Helped by a $400 loan from his brother Otho, he set up shop. The Freeport factory expanded steadily but haphazardly, and today it looks like a cross between Grandma's attic and a broken roller coaster. Dumbwaiters hesitantly carry materials from floor to floor through a mazelike production line...
Judges Nelson W. Aldrich '34, Leon Braithwalte, and Herman Swetzoff will award prizes of at least $100 to the best entries in various fields...
...CONQUEST OF LONDON (465 pp.) and THE MIDDLE YEARS (408 pp.), Vols. II & III of HENRY JAMES-Leon Edel--Lippincoft...
Since the death in 1960 of longtime President Leon ("Jake") Swirbul, Grumman has been piloted by E. (for Edwin) Clinton Towl, 57, one of the six air-struck men who founded the company in a Long Island garage 33 years ago (among the others: Swirbul and Chairman Leroy Grumman, now 67). Quiet and unassuming, Towl (pronounced Toll) runs less of a one-man show than colorful Jake Swirbul did. When asked to name the big moment in his career, Clint Towl grins. "Tomorrow." With that LEM contract in his pocket, he is undoubtedly right...