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When just about everybody who was anybody in Dallas suddenly began sleeping on candy-striped bed sheets three years ago, they had a reasonable explanation : "Mr. Stanley said it was the thing to do." Mr. Stanley is Stanley Marcus, 48, president of the famed Neiman-Marcus luxury specialty store, and the benevolent dictator of fashion not only for Dallas but for the whole Southwest. He has made himself so mainly by superb showmanship and a solemn dedication to his job that causes competitors to refer waspishly to Neiman's as "The Cathedral...
Last week Showman Marcus put on his biggest show of the year- his 16th annual Fall Fashion Exposition, in which the store had invested $50,000 and 12,000 man-hours of labor. By the shrewd device of awarding "Distinguished Service" plaques to outstanding designers, Mr. Stanley, as usual, had brought headline names* scurrying to Dallas from all over the world. Many another headliner came from distant points just to bid for the privilege of paying $12.50 (turned over to the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts) to be among the 1,000 paying guests in the first-night audience...
...salesmanship, Stanley Marcus has helped build Neiman-Marcus sales from $2,600,000 a year in 1926, the year he joined the family sales force, to their present $20 million level. He now hopes to boost them 25% with the new $7,500,000 addition to the main store (he opened a new $1,600,000 suburban branch...
...Unromantic Law. In Newport, England, defending a store accused of price-gouging, Lawyer B. J. Hayes failed to avert the court's ?7 ($19.60) fine despite his plea: "The boy clerk and girl clerk . . . did not have their minds on their work. They were married a month later...
Dennis Port, Mass., Burglar Edward J. Clancy climbed into the chimney of the Stop & Shop store, inched his way down 30 ft. before he got wedged in too tightly to move, two hours later was extricated and arrested...