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...luggage compartments. Instead, you go to private airports, or private hangars in regular airports, and hang out. Hang out, and look friendly, and don't be shy. Eventually (it may take a few minutes, or a few hours) a kindly executive, a bored pilot, a why-the-hell-not sportsman will shrug and smile and take your bags. Easy...
...same time, he also was awarded the New England juniors' Good Sportsman Award--the mention of which today makes him throw back his head and roll his eyes...
...could reorganize before the traditionally busy Christmas shopping season. Weary of unpaid bills, many of A. & F.'s suppliers had already begun demanding payment in cash for goods shipped to the firm. To reassure its nervous bankers, Abercrombie's unpaid chairman, Harry G. Haskell Jr., a wealthy sportsman himself (yachting, hunting) and former mayor of Wilmington, Del., who is also A. & F.'s largest stockholder, brought in a corporate surgeon. He is Geoffrey Swaebe, 65, a British-born retailing executive who made his reputation running Los Angeles' May Co., a part of the big St. Louis...
...calls a "restructuring of management personnel," meaning firings, shufflings and replacements. But a new cast of characters may not be enough for ailing Abercrombie. The store has had three chief executives since 1970, each of whom tried to extend A. & F.'s appeal beyond the well-heeled sportsman. They succeeded mainly in driving up costs and deepening A. & F.'s debt. In 1975 the store paid out more than $1 million in interest on loans...
Even more elaborate headdresses are preferred for evening wear. Among this season's most popular styles are the "drowned chicken," "chest of drawers," "mad dog" and "sportsman in the bush." Topical motifs are especially prized; one called "a I'inoculation "hails the controversial new treatment for the small pox. In an effort to reconcile propriety with fashion, a widow will occasionally sport a model of her dead husband's tomb upon her head...