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...Many of the meters are revitalized in a tiny shop in Van Nuys, Calif., by Donald Bromiley. 25. Lately he has been filling orders from small head shops and boutiques as well as from large enterprises like the May Co. and Neiman-Marcus (which sells a floor-stand model for $75, a table version for $51). Starting his business in 1970 when he bought two meters from a junkyard for $1.50 each, Bromiley has reconditioned and sold 1,200 of them, most purchased from municipalities like San Fernando (for $4 each) and Beverly Hills ($3.50 each). Bromiley's profit...
...Georg Jensen's found that normally fast-moving $1,500 jewelry was being passed up in favor of the $25-to-$125 variety. "The best-known store in Texas has dropped from its popular Christmas catalogue the traditional tips on "How to spend a million dollars at Neiman-Marcus...
Willard Bent, the head of a company that embraces Brooks Brothers, Washington's Julius Garfinckel & Co. and other stores, reports that sales are off in part because "downtown stores are just not showing the results that branches are." Stanley Marcus, president of Neiman-Marcus, has made a fortune in downtown Dallas but now prefers locations away from the center. Compared with them, he says, "it takes a lot more effort and advertising to generate downtown business...
...Dallas, Neiman-Marcus has another idea: if the air breeds black lungs, lift sail. For a fitting departure, the store will provide a $588,247 ark, "the perfect retreat from come-what-may." At 50 cubits wide, 30 cubits deep and 250 cubits long, it is slightly smaller than the biblical proportions, but still large enough to accommodate pairings of 92 mammals, ten reptiles, 26 birds, 14 fresh-water fish and 38 insects on its kennel deck. The species are presumably those that Neiman-Marcus deems necessary for setting up life in some as yet unpolluted corner of the globe...
...turned out to cheer when Lindy came to town. Five years later, Halaby took his first plane ride in an OX 5 Travel Air and enrolled in a flying course. He borrowed $6,500 from his parents?who ran an art shop on the top floor of the Neiman-Marcus department store?to buy a Fairchild 24 sports plane, and kept on flying through college days at Stanford, the University of Michigan and Yale Law School (LL.B., '40). During World War II, Halaby helped organize the Navy's test-pilot school at Patuxent River, Md., and flew the world...