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...Fifth Avenue and was losing a staggering $1.5 million a year on sales of $3 million. W. Maxey Jarman, then chairman of Ge-nesco, Inc., a Nashville-based apparel conglomerate, snapped up the indebted store and turned it over to an unlikely boss: Geraldine Stutz, a onetime model and shoe editor at Glamour, who had successfully run the advertising for Genesco's I. Miller shoe stores. After reluctantly deciding to accept the job, Stutz swept through Bendel like a fall hurricane tearing through the Caribbean. Says a former employee: "It was 24 hours...
...England was once the cradle of U.S. industry, but in recent years it seemed on its way to becoming an economic graveyard. Burdened by the U.S.'s highest energy costs, dying markets and sky-high taxes, a steady stream of shoe, textile and lumber companies closed their doors or headed to more hospitable climes in the Southeast and West. New England first suffered the symptoms of economic decay, depression and disillusionment that have now become so common in American business...
...experiences writing this week's story, Sidey says: "The work was shoe leather and phone. A call to Bob Strauss [chairman of the Carter-Mondale campaign] is always like plugging into General Headquarters, U.S.A. He has always just come away from a meeting with the President or John Connally or God. The story also took some long, tough hours of reading and thinking. But for the most part it was a lovely journey with old and new friends." The story includes, by the way, some fishing news...
...most elegant Alphonse and Gaston routine took place on the final backstretch when Ethiopian Mohammad Kedir, then second behind Kaarlo Maaninka of Finland, swerved to the outside so that the Shifter could rocket through for his second gold. Poor Kedir got tangled up with the pack, lost a shoe and finished dead last...
...pounds and my shoe size had grown by two. My mom kept looking at my feet and crying, and she didn't stop 'til we got to Bloomsburg...