Word: marcus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Couturier Jacques Fath, in Dallas to accept a fashion prize from the Neiman-Marcus store, got all dressed up in native costume (Western-style plaid shirt by Jacques Fath, glass-studded white leather belt by Neiman-Marcus, blue denim britches by Sears, Roebuck). Concluding that the U.S. square dance is "wonderful, wonderful," he announced that Paris would hear of the sport just as soon as he got home...
Every August, Parisian haute couture stages a style show dedicated to extolling the wares of Schiaparelli, Fath and Dior, and extracting the dollars of Saks, Filene's and Neiman-Marcus. This year, however, the show almost flopped before it started...
...began in 1924 because Marcus Loew's Eastern theaters needed more films. Neither Loew's own studio, Metro Pictures, nor his friend, Producer Louis B. Mayer, could keep up with the demand. The big chance came when another fledgling named Sam Goldwyn decided to unload his Culver City studio. Loew's Inc. put up $5,000,000 worth of stock for Goldwyn's lot and launched it, under Mayer's supervision, as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...shop moved to the Linz Building-a seven-story Dallas "skyscraper" with a roof garden where visitors could relax and enjoy the view.* And he was on hand in 1940 when Linz Bros, moved to its present quarters, a severely modern building a few doors from the Neiman-Marcus department store. Until his death last February, at 85, "Mr. Albert" showed up every day to hand his customers Irish jokebooks, and horehound candy to ward off colds. Then brother Simon's heirs stepped in-son Clifton Linz as president, son-in-law Asher Kahn as vice president. Under them...
...another aspect of Texas, the three tourists made a shopping tour of Dallas' Neiman-Marcus specialty store. In San Antonio they talked to Tom Slick, the young Texas oil millionaire who is pumping much of his fortune into three scientific research foundations. One of the foundations has worked out a new construction technique which Slick thinks might revolutionize the building industry; another has figured out a new method of artificial insemination which will permit scrub cattle to give birth to purebreds. All Texans-from college presidents to cattlemen-took their abundant energy and confidence for granted. Dallas Banker...