Word: sportsman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bean believed, and was obviously content in proving, that "it takes a sportsman to design equipment for sportsmen." For more than 50 years, the flinty, down-East salesman peddled wilderness wares of his own making to grizzled backwoodsmen as well as fugitives from Abercrombie & Fitch. Among those who bought his snowshoes, fishing tackle and what have you were Bernard Baruch, Eleanor Roosevelt, Babe Ruth, Doris Day and Amy Vanderbilt. To meet the demand, Bean employed 120 workers, also maintained a 24-hour-a-day, 365-day-a-year ("When hunters need something, they want it right away") retail outlet...
...died of a heart ailment during a Florida vacation last week at 94, L. L. (for Leon Leonwood) Bean left a $4,000,000-a-year backwoods bonanza that could have been far bigger had he ever branched beyond tiny (pop. 4,000) Freeport, Me. But Bean liked his sportsman's supply business the way it was. "I get three good meals a day," he once said, "and I can't eat four...
...AMERICAN SPORTSMAN (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). It's man against fin, fang and claw as Bing Crosby and Joe Brooks fish for English Atlantic salmon, Rex Allen rounds up Oklahoma rattlesnakes, and Archer Fred Bear hunts Alaskan polar bears...
Down the Middle. It was Evans who brought on the changes. A flamboyant Grosse Pointe investor-sportsman who late in 1965 began building a $2,000,000 A.M.C. stock holding (now worth $1,500,000), he has been at odds with Abernethy ever since he became board chairman last June. Onetime Auto Salesman Abernethy delighted in hooting that New Boy Evans knew nothing about the business. Evans, for his part, upstaged Abernethy at press conferences, privately complained that his suggestions were being ignored. Friction grew worse when A.M.C. wound up fiscal 1966 with a $12,648,000 loss-its first...
...rheumatic fever, and it affected his heart. During World War II, he was invalided out of the Royal Air Force after he had been accepted for pilot training. All his young life he lived in the shadow of a robust, rich and famous father: Sir Malcolm Campbell, gentleman sportsman, holder of nine world land-speed records and three water-speed records, knighted by King George V. Even after Sir Malcolm died, in his bed at 64, the shadow remained. Donald sought out mediums, trying to contact his father-sometimes, he claimed, with success: "There he was, laughing uproariously...