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...pioneer merchandise houses were actually led by seed companies and, curiously enough, sporting-goods retailers. Their prosperous successors in the fitness era are such companies as Seattle's Eddie Bauer and Orvis, in Manchester, Vt. The most famous of all came along in 1912 when Leon Leonwood Bean started selling his rubber-bottomed hunting shoes from a Main Street address in Freeport...
...seized the invalid Pontiac division of General Motors and pumped it back to life. It was De Lorean (so goes the tale) who showed the corporate stuffed shirts the writing on the wall. Where was the fuel-efficient, practical, obsolescence-proof carriage for the common man? asked our ageless pioneer. No one looked up from the boardroom table. The point is that for all his boogying and Ursula Andressing, De Lorean actually understood what...
DIED. Anna Freud, 86, pioneer of child psychoanalysis, whose theories advanced the work of her famous father Sigmund; in London. She opposed those who advocated the analysis of pre-verbal children and emphasized the purposeful care of parents and teachers. Applying in practice what she asserted on paper (in eight eloquent volumes), the self-effacing Freud established the first day nursery in Vienna and trained a generation of followers at the celebrated Hampstead Child-Therapy Clinic in England. She habitually shunned publicity and deferred to the parent whom she nursed in life and steadfastly defended in death. "I didn...
...widespread acknowledgement of both Blaney and Sullivan by their peers is the best evidence that female representation on the force can be increased. "The department, from the chief on down, has demonstrated it's willing to accept people regardless of gender," Morse says, adding that "Barbara was a pioneer for that, and she'll be a good role model in the future...
...idea of a uniform corporate look originated in Germany before World War I. Its pioneer was AEG, the nationwide electric company, which began as a manufacturer of light bulbs, soon made electric appliances and, by 1928, controlled mines, railroads, rolling mills and airplane plants. Peter Behrens, a painter, graphic artist and architect, who also gained a reputation as a designer of type faces and industrial products, created AEG's distinct, although by now somewhat antiquated rendition of its initials...