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...with only $250,000 to spend on Christmas presents this year, there is a store dedicated to providing a wide selection of worldly goods tailored to his budget: Neiman-Marcus of Texas. There he may very well be waited on by the saturnine president of the company, Stanley Marcus, 55, who scours the world looking for unique, elegant and off-beat items-and likes to sell them himself. This Christmas, for the well-heeled customer, he has a matched pair of Beechcraft airplanes neatly emblazoned "His" and "Hers" for $176,000, an espresso coffee-making machine...
...welling land of the big spenders, Marcus has sought not only to create a store devoted to luxury but to provide standards that his often newly rich customers can rely on. Operating a store that is in many ways comparable to the best in Manhattan, he has effectively imposed Eastern and Continental taste on his customers. Though ready to indulge rich whims, he has been known to kill a good sale if he thinks a purchase is not suitable, e.g., a mink coat for a college freshman. As a result, Neiman-Marcus is a respected name in stylish circles around...
...nauseating"), many mix it with gin, rum or bourbon. Some freeze it and eat it like sherbet. A Washington lovelorn columnist advised the wife of an alcoholic to spike her husband's gin with Metrecal. One happy user of a similar supplement is Dallas' Specialty Store (Nieman-Marcus) Tycoon Stanley Marcus. "I've lost 15 pounds," says he, "several times." Marcus' specialty is "a kind of Spanish gazpacho soup." He mixes the dieting powder with cucumbers, tomato paste, ground-up peppers, tomatoes and curry powder...
Basically, what worries most businessmen is that 1960 has not lived up to their expectations. Says Stanley Marcus, president of Dallas' Nieman-Marcus: "We all thought the golden '60s were to be a soar ing bird, not a land-based animal. Busi ness is still good, about the same as last year, which was good, but there is disap pointment because things are not as good as they were supposed to be." Disappointing Steel. The reasons for the disappointment in the economy's performance so far this year seem clear. The post-steel strike inventory buildup that...
...take their name from one of Haile Selassie's family names, trace back to the U.S. back-to-Africa movement led by Jamaica-born Marcus Garvey in the 1920s...