Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years has worn a new pair of shoes every week, Walton Maxey Jarman, 59, is a surprisingly shrewd and careful shopper. As the chairman of a half-billion dollar manufacturing and retailing giant, Genesco, Inc. of Nashville, Tenn., he does most of his shopping for companies-and has bought up 46 of them since 1938. Last week, after a three-month battle, Jarman added another company to his shopping bag; for $27 million, he bought control of S. H. Kress & Co., a national chain of 342 variety stores. Genesco, which started as a shoe company and already...
...giant feat of merchandising. She has deadly fun with such astonishing specialists as the Practical Burial Footwear Company of Columbus, Ohio, which offer Fit-a-Fut oxfords (in patent, calf, tan or oxblood) and Ko-Zee, with its "soft, cushioned soles and warm, luxurious slipper comfort, but true shoe smartness." Courtesy Products has a "new Bra-form, Post Mortem Form Restoration . . . they accomplish so much for so little ($11 for a package of 50)," and at a recent convention of the National Funeral Directors' Association, Florence Gowns Inc. of Cleveland showed a line of "hostess gowns and brunch coats...
...foyer. He lugs his hefty pickup up and down stairs and in and out of an antique glass-walled elevator in a frantic attempt to find her apartment so he can unload her. When he finally gets rid of her and back on the street, he is missing a shoe, goes hippety-hoppety down the avenue at dawn, wondering if girls are worth the effort...
Three hours later, on the other side of the East-West barrier, a West German couple enjoying an afternoon walk came upon a little boy curled up in the grass sound asleep. His face was dirt-smudged, he had lost one shoe, there was a scratch on his cheek-but otherwise he seemed all right. The youngest East German refugee evidently had crossed the Iron Curtain with the ease of Br'er Rabbit skipping through the briar patch, somehow missing the mines and the gaze of the Grepos. When he woke up, he could only say: "Ich heisse Peter...
...small but powerful division (300 lawyers, $6,600,000 budget) that Bill Orrick took over is well aware of its expanded powers. In the Brown Shoe case, the Supreme Court last year dealt a blow to corporate lawyers who thought that antitrust action could be directed only against a large concentration of power. It ruled that a merger between Brown and the Kinney retail shoe chain had to be broken up because it might result in restraint of trade-even though it involved only 5% of the U.S. shoe business. Last June the court went further and ruled that...