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Dillaway had filled out his withdrawal slip and presented it to the woman teller at the savings window. She began to tremble--and for good reason. On the back of the slip an unknown prankster had written, "I have a gun. Give me all your paper money...
...issue there is a damaging statement about me. You say that Maxey Jarman "kicked" me put of Genesco Inc. There is no truth in this whatsoever. The facts are that much to Mr. Jarman's surprise, I resigned as a director of Genesco and as president of Bonwit Teller in lune 1960. I remained as chairman of Tiffany & Co., and with a group of associates, purchased it from Genesco in October 1961. There is another inaccurate statement that may be just a typographical error. You say, "For at least six years Hoving has tried, and failed, to take over...
Jarman, 61, a Baptist deacon and collector of nonobjective painting, built his father's Nashville, Tenn., shoemaking firm into a $760 million-a-year shoe-and-clothing combine called Genesco Inc. As chairman, he controls some 1,500 retail outlets grouped under 50 firms, including I. Miller, Bonwit Teller, Roger Kent, Henri Bendel. Hoving, 68, stands 6 ft. 2 in. tall and looks every inch what he is: the supremely suave chairman of the grand Fifth Avenue jewelers, Tiffany...
...Pretty Sleepy." It used to be that Hoving worked under Jarman for Genesco, and headed both Bonwit Teller and the then Genesco-owned Tiffany. The two men developed a strong mutual antipathy, and in 1958 Jarman pointedly noted that Hoving was four years short of Genesco's mandatory retirement age, suggested that he start thinking about grooming a successor. Hoving sat tight until 1960, when Jarman finally kicked him out of Genesco. The following year, Hoving got control of Tiffany as head of a syndicate that bought the jewelers from Jarman...
...many active threads, biographical themes, and local vignettes would be balanced but evocative; he also had to discipline himself to a new kind of detachment--not merely because it was his duty to remain aloof from the questions and emotions raised by the tale he had appointed himself teller of, but because he had become dangerously intimate with the lives involved...