Word: marcuse
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...long afterwards, Picasso gave up painting as a bad job. For two years he loafed, and did a little writing in a style that seemed to derive from Gertrude Stein and an old grad's 25th-anniversary recollections of Marcus Tullius Cicero. Sample: "Nothing to do but to watch the thread that destiny works which taints the theft of the glass from the mind that shakes the hour coiled up in remembrances toasted on grills of blue...
While growing, it expanded into high-style lines for such swank stores as Dallas' own Neiman-Marcus, and into specialties like the stylish maternity gowns made by Dallas' Page Boy (TIME, Sept. 6, 1948). One big Dallas maker, Justin McCarty, Inc., rang up $2,500,000 in 1949 sales with sportswear items. But nothing in Dallas had grown quite as fantastically as Nardis Sportswear, run by high-pressured little Bernard L. Gold...
...theatrical producer Richard S. Aldrich of New York; Arthur Menken of the Department of State; George P. Baker, James J. Hill Professor of Archaeology; John H. Finley, Jr., Eliot Professor of Greek Literature; Professor Raymond M. Fuoss of Yale University; City Councillor Milton Cook of Boston; and Harold S. Marcus, vice-president of Neiman-Marcus Company, Dallas, Texas...
...little over a year ago, Captain Stokes' special squad raided a fourth floor room in Fairfax Hall, at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Linden Street, and arrested Arthur Marcus for operating a "telephone room." After the last race was over at the local tracks, about 6:30 p.m., Marcus would go out and pay off to those who had phoned in bets to him during the day. Police placed several $100 bets with Marcus. That they were accepted without hesitation leads police to estimate that he was handling well over $1000 a day. But because this was his first...
...Marcus no longer operates here, so far as police know. However, since he grossed at least $1000 daily, police are sure local bookmaking can be no lower than that figure...