Word: teller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Bonwit Teller became the only big Manhattan store with a woman chief executive. The job went to Mrs. Hortense McQuarrie ("Tenney") Odlum, sprightly wife of Floyd Bostwick Odlum, who had discovered the store among the assets of one of the investment trusts picked up by his Atlas Corp. during Depression.* It was Mr. Odlum's idea that the logical person to run a women's store was a woman. Since then the Odlums have been divorced, Mr. Odlum marrying Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran, Mrs. Odlum becoming Mrs. Porfilio Dominici by mar rying a Paris surgeon. The corporate...
Under Atlas management Bonwit Teller has changed from an involuntary merchandising venture with bleak prospects to a likely-looking investment with a return expected this year. Last week in celebration of the second anniversary of her entry into business, President Dominici was given a cocktail party, to which the press was invited to watch her cut a cake model of her store. On the confection roof was a decorative "2" to record not only President Dominici's tenure but also the fact that Bonwit Teller had doubled its business...
...Notre Dame's late Football Coach Knute Kenneth Rockne. His disease: dementia praecox. At Carlton, Saskatchewan, Author John Buchan, First Baron Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada, was crowned with feathers, draped in caribou skin, made a member of the Cree tribe, under the name Okemow Otataowkew ("Teller of Tales...
Marriage Revealed. Floyd Bostwick Odium, 44, president of Atlas- Corp., divorced last year by President Hortense McQuarrie Odium of Manhattan swank-shop Bonwit Teller; and Jacqueline Cochran, 27, flyer, Los Angeles and Chicago beauty parlor proprietor; in Los Angeles...
...Kreisler *"La Valse," Choreographic Poem Ravel *Overture to "Russlan and Ludville" Glinka Arabesque Hugh F. MacColl Chamounix Suite Florence Newell-Barbour Orchestrated by W. Leps Moonlight's Magic Spell Sunrise at Mont Blanc *Finale, Fifth Symphony Tchaikovsky Andante maestoso--Allegro vivace Dr. Wassili Leps, Guest Cond. *Selection, "The Fortune Teller" Herbert *Malaguena Lecuona-Grofe *Indian War Dance Skilton Selections Checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square