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Starting out as just one of the South's many shoemakers, Genesco has grown pell-mell since 1938 by buying up 46 companies. Today it operates 80 factories in 17 states, manufactures 51 brands of shoes from Flagg Bros, to Mannequin, makes Griffon men's clothes and Formfit girdles, and sells its wares through 1,500 Genesco-owned retail stores, including the Bonwit Teller chain. From its sprawling empire, Genesco last year drew profits of $8,900,000 on sales of $443 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: The Impatient Shoemaker | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

Mecca for fashion models is Paris' House of Dior, but for redheaded Welsh Mannequin Maggie Griffiths, 23, Dior was becoming a bore. "Fittings from 10 in the morning until 10 at night; the same clothes in the same shows day after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 31, 1962 | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

Said a little boy to his mother, after eyeing the be-noosed mannequin, "We're not going in there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dress Stores Attempt To Lampoon 'Poon | 7/13/1961 | See Source »

Born. To David Michael Mountbatten, 42, third Marquess of Milford Haven, cousin of Britain's royal couple and best man at their wedding, and Janet Mercedes Bryce, 23, his second wife, a Bermuda socialite and sometime Manhattan mannequin: their first child, a son, who ensures continuation of the Mountbatten name (only other family male: British Defense Staff Chief Earl Mountbatten); in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 16, 1961 | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

After her coronation as "Miss World" in London last fall, sinuous Argentine Mannequin Norma Gladys Cappaglis, 21, predictably found someone who could get her a part in a movie. While in Rome waiting to start, she was immortalized by Italian Painter Gioacchino Parlato as she sat for the newest version of the old classic: a portrait of artist and model...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 28, 1961 | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

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