Word: sportsmen
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...staple of American culture, the club's founding fathers had not thought it necessary to specify when picking a name. As a contemporary wrote--"so unique is its fame, that all up and down the Atlantic seaboard no reference to locality is needed in speaking to good sportsmen of "The Country Club...
Alas, the snow has forced the fans into action. Off the sofa and into the heat of battle. At Harvard, at least, the blizzard has turned a bunch of seemingly-lobotomized color TV radiation victims into participatory sportsmen...
Died. Prince Mohamed Ali Ibrahim, 77, cousin of Egypt's late King Farouk; in Paris. A man about town in Los Angeles and New York City during the Prohibition Era, the prince associated with sportsmen and Hollywood luminaries. A yachtsman, he became a designer of sailing ships...
After more than eight decades of catering to princes and Presidents as well as just run-of-the-millionaire sportsmen, New York-based Abercrombie & Fitch now finds itself looking, figuratively, at the business end of one of those $6,000 custom-made rifles it has become famous for. Losses for the nine-store chain have widened steadily over the past six years, and lately they have grown as big as all outdoors-from $540,000 on sales of $25.4 million last year to a thumping $1.7 million in the first three quarters of 1976. Last week, amid talk that...
...railroad surveyors, prospectors and others who worked out of doors. Then, in 1892, he met Ezra Fitch, a successful but bored lawyer. They became partners and built a store on Broadway where Fitch set out to sell Abercrombie's goods to the public in general and fat-cat sportsmen in particular. After many disagreements over just whom the store should be catering to-Abercrombie's trappers or Fitch's moneyed swells-the two hot-tempered entrepreneurs parted, with Abercrombie quitting the business...