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...EMMA S. MARCUS...
...ROUND the world, the chances for investment abound (see Capital Opportunities). But too often there is no capital to invest. As President Marcus Wallenberg of Stockholm's Enskilda Bank pointed out to the conference delegates, the demands for investment funds have far outrun the savings from which the capital must come...
...give these Neiman-Marcus people a year−two years, if they have plenty of money, three years, if they don't care what happens to it." So, the story goes, said a passing clothes drummer in 1907 of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Neiman and Herbert Marcus, who hoped to bring Fifth Avenue fashions to the rawhide heart of the Southwest. Last week Neiman-Marcus was not only still around to celebrate a highly profitable golden anniversary (annual sales of $36 million, earnings of $543,000) as one of the world's finest specialty stores (TIME, Sept...
Just before his 67th birthday, a bearded, scholarly-looking man suffering from leukoplakia appeared at the clinic of Vienna Rhinologist Marcus Hajek. The patient had a group of hard, smooth white spots on the inside of the jaw; expecting a trivial operation, he had not mentioned the visit to his family. But the operation went badly-the growth proved cancerous. In response to an alarming phone call, the patient's wife and daughter rushed to the clinic, found him seated on a kitchen chair with blood all over his clothes. He was too ill to go home...
...Dallas, French Fashion Designer Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel, 74, received the Neiman-Marcus Golden Anniversary Award as "the great innovator who emancipated the feminine silhouette," transforming it from undulating, feminine curves to flapper angularities with emphasis on comfort, jersey, pearls, the triangular scarf, the pleated skirt, shawls, colored gloves for night parties, and cloche hats for that come-hither look -and Chanel No. 5 for that come-hither smell. In a baffling statement of first principles, the woman who banished the waistline, eliminated hips and deflated the bosom, announced: "The most important thing is to look feminine." Confusing the issue still...