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...Pasadena, Calif...
...England, and made the first of their international deals that now include licensing arrangements in England, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Argentina, Mexico and Peru. The home office delivers the design, advertising and selling campaigns-and production know-how. Joyce's British partners, for example, after training at his Pasadena plant, managed to boost their own man-hour output by 50%. The result: Joyce footwear that sells in the U.S. for $2.95 to $10.95 sells for only a little more in Britain, which is about half the price of competing models of equal quality. By combining quality and economy, Joyce...
...Pasadena, Calif, headquarters of Joyce, Inc., all this global shoe-fitting last year added up to a thumping gross of $8.4 million. This year's sales are so good that Joyce, already the world's largest maker of wedgie playshoes for women, expects its overall gross to approach $20 million...
With only $10 left in his pocket, Joyce sat up for six nights on a day coach back to Pasadena. There he borrowed $250 from his father, rented space above a drugstore, hired a $20-a-week seamstress, and began turning out cheap ($1), soft-soled rehearsal shoes for the theater trade. Working a 16-hour daily grind, Joyce cut the leather soles at night; by day, while his seamstress sewed on the uppers, Joyce wore out his own shoes trying to sell the sandals...
Divorced. John Knudsen ("Jack") Northrop, 53, aircraft builder (the Black Widow, the Fly ing-Wing): by Inez Harmer Northrop, fiftyish; after 31 years of marriage, three children; in Pasadena, Calif...