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Drinan has only had four weeks of campaigning in defense of his seat. His campaign strategy has been to emphasize his record in Congress. "He's talking about traditional Democratic values--he's cut unemployment in the district by 25 per cent," Lois S. Traub, Drinan's campaign manager, says. Traub says that Drinan welcomes Mason's challenge because it will put to rest a lot of misunderstanding about the support Drinan has in the district...
...fashion, the source of much of Bloomingdale's allure and a lot of its money, Traub and others among the Bloomingdale's gang?particularly the late Katie Murphy?helped make some of the biggest designers. When Murphy, who died unexpectedly last spring at 58, joined Bloomingdale's in 1967, one of her first moves was to introduce the designer shop?an enclave where the works of only one designer would be shown. The first such shop, opened in 1968, was for Michel and Chantal Faure of St.-Tropez, then barely known even in France. Bloomingdale's sold hundreds of maxicoats...
...Murphy persuaded Yves Saint Laurent to make clothes in the U.S., and Bloomingdale's opened a Saint Laurent shop before its competitors; it grosses about $ 1 million a year. In Ralph Lauren, Bloomies developed a designer from scratch. When Lauren was an unknown salesman of his own tie designs, Traub and Murphy encouraged him to do more ties, then men's suits and shoes, then women's blouses, skirts, pants and sleepwear. His boutiques now sell $4 million annually, and Lauren has his own company...
...Traub is convinced that Bloomingdale's has found the formula for winning customers and boosting sales, even during times of economic uncertainty?and not only in the New York area. In the next two years Bloomingdale's will open two stores near Washington, D.C., its first major geographic expansion. But its influence is already felt coast-to-coast. Says an executive of one department-store chain at the other end of the continent from Bloomingdale's, "What is happening there will be happening in Middle America six months to a year from now." Considering Bloomingdale's aggressiveness, he might...
...thought that the Chinese had interesting merchandise that our customers would like." says Presdient Marvin Traub, recalling how the venture began in 1971. When the White House lifted the embargo on trade that summer. Traub immediately called a friendly French importer of Chinese goods and persuaded him to redirect to Bloomingdale's a shipment already on route to France. Result: on Oct. 25, 1971 the very day the U.N. gave a seat to the People's Republic, Bloomingdale's opened its "China Passage" shop. The timing helped to make the shop an immediate hit. Woven rattan baskets...