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Verna Gibson did not have her eye on the executive suite 27 years ago, when she took a part-time sales job in a Point Pleasant, W. Va., department store. But that is just where she is after a successful career in retailing. As president of Limited Stores, she is perhaps the highest-ranking woman to have worked her way up in a major American corporation. Her ambition today is both simple and lofty. Says she: "My current goal is to be the best corporate president in the nation...
Married at the end of her sophomore year at Marshall University in Huntington, W. Va., Gibson worked in various cities while her husband James was building his career in sales. In 1971 she saw her first Limited store in a shopping mall in Columbus. Intrigued by its high-style, affordable fashion approach, she got in touch with Wexner. Says he: "No one had ever called me to talk about my business. She became my assistant with no title and little...
Neil Frank of the National Hurricane Warning Center for keeping Easterners informed on Hurricane Gloria. Thomas T. Earles Culpeper, Va. Fickle Defector...
...grave error, for which he will pay the price. The smile was merely an attempt to comfort his tearful wife, who is having to learn to accept the fact that through no fault of her own, she will not have her husband for the next decade. Margaret Walker Norfolk, Va. Altered Image...
...reaches of our solar system. We have stopped being earthbound and have ventured out to greet the comet. In the next 75 years, will we still be waiting for Halley's comet to come to us, or will we be chasing it? John D. Tew Sterling, Va...