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...firm were so impressed with his diligence that they sent him to the mining hamlet of Kemmerer to open a new shop-called The Golden Rule Store. In tiny Kemmerer, almost everybody bought on credit-and paid high prices. Penney, then 26, tried another formula: cash, but with a slender markup to attract big volume. He attributed his chain's success to that policy, and to the profit-sharing plan that he started in 1907, which he said made his employees "associates." With annual sales of $4.1 billion, J.C. Penney today ranks as the nation's fifth merchandising...
...showed me a slender glossy pamphlet on the school. When the library was described, a peculiar emphasis was placed on the wall-to-wallcarpeting, while little was said about research facilities. Turning to the front page which bore the face and words of the college president, I indicated to the interviewer that gracing the shelf behind the president's head and just out of the camera's focus was a set of The Harvard Classics, that six foot shelf of great books collected by President Eliot over fifty years ago. On the cover of this promotional pamphlet were the ".. words...
PIERRE ("PETE") DU PONT IV, 36, Republican, Del., looks the industrial scion he is: slender, aristocratic, out of Exeter, Princeton and Harvard Law School. He is most concerned about the U.S. drug problem, and is seeking a seat on the Commerce Committee, which has a subcommittee on drugs. He calls his bargaining as freshman "playing poker with no cards...
...than any other general manager except Giulio Gatti-Casazza (1908-35). But if charm counts for anything, and it certainly does among the matrons and patrons of the Met, Gentele should be able to match Rudi Bing and endure for quite a while himself. He is a man of slender elegance with a graceful manner and clear, purposeful blue eyes. His wife Marit, a trim, Nordic-blonde who could have stepped out of a Bergman movie, is fond of pointing out that Goran has a master's degree in political science. He may need it. A hail fellow does...
...Master of Mary of Burgundy, A Book of Hours. Edited by J.J.G. Alexander. Unpaged. Braziller. $25. Like the slender archways in the works of early Flemish masters, this tiny, devotional book opens on small worlds of piety and delight. It is a facsimile re-creation of a Book of Hours made, circa 1478, for the daughter of the last great Duke of Burgundy by a master miniaturist. His biblical figures, mock tourneys, glimpsed landscapes and rich borders decked with acanthus rolls, peacock feathers, shells and fabulous birds and beasts brilliantly profit from the example of the Limbourg brothers...