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When just about everybody who was anybody in Dallas suddenly began sleeping on candy-striped bed sheets three years ago, they had a reasonable explanation : "Mr. Stanley said it was the thing to do." Mr. Stanley is Stanley Marcus, 48, president of the famed Neiman-Marcus luxury specialty store, and the benevolent dictator of fashion not only for Dallas but for the whole Southwest. He has made himself so mainly by superb showmanship and a solemn dedication to his job that causes competitors to refer waspishly to Neiman's as "The Cathedral...
Died. Carrie Marcus Neiman, 69, co-founder and chairman of the board of Neiman-Marcus, famed Dallas specialty store; of pleurisy; in Dallas. With her former husband A. L. Neiman and her late brother Herbert Marcus, Carrie Neiman raised $35,000 in 1907 to bring high fashion to Texas, helped build the store into a $25 million annual business...
...costume, however, will be far less regal than that of President Tyler's second wife, "the Rose of Long Island," who received on a dais, wearing a crownlike headdress of bugles: Mamie's glittering, wide-skirted inaugural gown, designed by Nettie Rosenstein and purchased from Texas' Neiman-Marcus, is of pale rose poult-de-soie, bespangled by 2,000 rhinestones in varying shades of pink. Mrs. Eisenhower's junior partners as official Washington hostesses are the wives of Cabinet officers. Mrs. John Foster Dulles has been ill-but most of the other ladies were trying...
Last week all but Lait & Mortimer agreed to a crow-eating settlement with Neiman-Marcus. It called for 1) letters of apology to every one of the store's 1,500 employees, 2) a guarantee that the offending paragraphs will not be printed in future copies of the book, 3) a cash settlement with the store, 4) a half-page apology "to the highly regarded Neiman-Marcus store and its employees" paid for by the defendants and printed this week as an ad in seven big-city dailies...
...Neiman-Marcus will continue to press its suit against Authors Lait & Mortimer. Say the two authors doggedly: "[The others] threw in the sponge and surrendered, [but] we propose to establish the truth of all our assertions . . . We reject and repudiate such an apology . . . We believe [the] suits against U.S.A. Confidential are politically inspired...