Word: herberts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...idea of a luxury store in a cattle-and-cotton city of 86,000 seemed slightly pretentious when Neiman-Marcus was founded in 1907 by Stanley's father, Herbert Marcus, and his aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Neiman. It was doing all right in 1926, with sales of $2,600,000, when Harvard-educated Stanley, then 21, went to work in the store's fur shop. Then the luxury goods really began to move. The year before the shop had sold only $74,000 worth of pelts. Using the casual, low-pressure manner that...
...output, Lawrence Harvey has to scramble fast to compete against the giants. He grabbed his telephone, learned the contract had indeed been agreed upon, but was not yet signed. He summoned a family conference in the company's executive suite: Father Leo M. Harvey, 75, company president; Uncle Herbert Harvey, 65, engineering vice president; and Brother Homer M. Harvey, 36, administrative vice president. Together they quickly decided what price they could offer the buyer. By that afternoon the deal was signed-with Harvey Aluminum, not the competitor...
...Shirley Temple Show (NBC, 7-8 p.m.). Victor Herbert's Babes in Toy land, revisited by the hostess, Jonathan Winters and Jerry Colonna. Color...
...courtroom drama was enhanced by the presence of two distinguished antagonists. Attorney Herbert Brownell Jr., acting as counsel for Westinghouse, rose seven times to state "Westinghouse pleads guilty." Opposing Brownell in court: U.S. Attorney and Trustbuster Robert Bicks, who in 1953 was brought into antitrust work in Washington by then U.S. Attorney General Brownell. "Bicks," said Judge J. Cullen Ganey, "has done a splendid job." To teach the guilty electrical companies a lesson, Trustbuster Bicks is expected to urge jail terms for some of the conspiring executives when sentence is pronounced next month...
...Died. Herbert Ross, 75, Scotch whisky magnate (distiller for such brands as White Horse) who lost a leg in Mesopotamia in World War I, opened his first distillery with another one-legged veteran and, as his business prospered, gave away more than ?1,000,000 to British universities, zoos, hospitals and the Wine and Spirit Trade Benevolent Society; after years as an invalid; in Cove, Scotland...