Word: neiman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reliables there are also new wrinkles, e.g., toy guns this year have built-in whine and ricochet sounds. For kids who have almost everything, Dallas' Neiman-Marcus has a $2,200 gas-engine-powered passenger train...
...wear. Reasons: the rise in private pools, the step-up in travel to Europe, which has broadened the U.S. woman's taste while relaxing her modesty, and the huge increase in dieting to keep in trim. More women can afford to show more of their figures. Says Neiman-Marcus Buyer Sally Tutt: "The Bikini will be a big thing this year for sun and fun. The well-traveled waistline has been going up and down since fashion de-emphasized the bosom, and the spotlight is now on the navel...
...just before the Germans marched in, emptied out the seagoing haberdashery aboard the Queen Mary when it was converted to a wartime troopship. Filene's customers got these bargains-plus hip-length hose from the Folies-Bergère and smoke-damaged goods from Dallas' Neiman-Marcus-at cut-rate prices that are automatically trimmed 25% after twelve selling days, 50% after 18, 75% after 24. If unsold after a month, the goods are given to charity...
...brother, no wives, headed for Texas. He was met at the airport near Dallas in a funeral director's Cadillac limousine (Dallas, unaccountably, could not produce a proper car from any other source), toured a General Motors plant in nearby Arlington. He took in a fashion show at Neiman-Marcus' department store, and best of all, got a good taste of cowboy life at the famed King Ranch, where the land and the vast expanses seemed more like home than granite-blocked Washington or gleaming Dallas. There, in five-gallon hat and astride a quarter horse...
What was going on, as everyone else in Dallas knew, was probably the biggest birthday party ever attempted by any U.S. department store. All Dallas was swept into the act. For Neiman-Marcus' "French Fortnight," the art museum displayed 32 Toulouse-Lautrecs, and the local Lions, Kiwanians and Y.M.C.A. swooped down on visiting French dignitaries for a round of lunches and speeches. France's most sought-after artist, Bernard Buffet (TIME, Feb. 27, 1956), won the city by sporting a giant Stetson; Authors Pierre Daninos (The Notebooks of Major Thompson) and Louise de Vilmorin were lionized at dinner...