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Taylor said yesterday that a Nieman fellowship is a great honor, and that many former Neiman fellows have gone on to win Puluitzer Prizes and other awards...
...found his modest kitchen-equipment supply company digging itself out from orders coming from Tokyo to Manitoba, Liberia to Panama, from stores such as Macy's and Neiman-Marcus, from soldiers in Viet Nam, as well as newlyweds in Nebraska. Nearly 8,000 pans have now been sold, and three months later, orders are still coming in at six times the average of a year ago. And the busy Mr. Bridge is still marveling at the power of a footnote...
...Alaska's initial harvest. In less than two hours of bidding, Alaska Governor Walter J. Hickel, who revived the trade as a state-owned enterprise, presided over the sale of 826 skins. The record-breaking top price: $2,300 per skin, paid by George Liebes of Dallas' Neiman-Marcus for four male pelts, each more than 5 ft. long and 30 in. wide...
Salutary Effect. Specifically, said Marcus in a letter to 9,000 suppliers, Neiman-Marcus intends to deal as much as possible with firms who hire and train more people from minorities. "We would rather do business with a company which is actively and sincerely pursuing a policy of equal opportunity than to continue to do business with one which is not," he said. "The Federal Government requires that every one of its suppliers of goods and services certifies that it is an equal-opportunity employer. We believe a private company should do no less...
...Neiman-Marcus is one of the first retailers to take such a step in the area of buying practices, and civil rights groups responded approvingly. "The announcement will have a salutary effect," said John A. Morsell, assistant executive director of the N.A.A.C.P. "Assuring equal employment opportunity cannot be made the exclusive business of government, and one would think that businessmen would insist upon a major role for business also." Some retailers were less enthusiastic. "This type of action should not fall into the private sector," said Martin B. Kohn, chairman of Baltimore's Hochschild, Kohn & Co. and president...