Word: parker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Important. The turnaround is largely the result of prolonged prosperity, which not only gives men more money to spend but makes them more conscious of their appearance. "The middle to higher income groups now need a larger wardrobe," says Nicholas Parker, Genesco Inc.'s president for men's wear (Fenn-Feinstein, Roger Kent, Whitehouse & Hardy). This means a more expensive wardrobe: more men now buy suits in the $90 to $150 range, pay $6 or $8 for slacks when they used to pay $4. Leisure time and suburban sociability have caused a sportswear explosion; 125 million pairs...
...young man who stood six-foot-seven and was wearing kilts. He said he wanted a job, and Editor Frank Crowninshield, delighted to have such a piece of bric-a-brac on the premises, stowed him in an office occupied by two other odd objects-Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley...
...Year-Chief Parker...
...church-news page, but alongside supermarket and department-store advertising. Future ads will describe the denomination's colleges, mission work and role in race relations. "If it works in Washington, and it looks like it will," says the United Church's Communications Director Everett Parker, "we will move it to other cities...
Thus there is a new breed of sailor that doesn't sail-at least not much or far. Says Dave Parker, executive vice president of the Hatteras Yacht Co.: "People who buy these yachts aren't sailors-they're landlubbers. They like to get there fast and drink long." And to enjoy Beethoven in stereo and bourbon on the rocks, the owner of a modern yacht must hook up to a marina's power line (and he often wants a telephone line) almost as soon as he shuts off his engine; his appliances draw too much...