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Agriculture Department. In September 1961, the testimony ran, Estes went into the men's wear department of Neiman-Marcus with Assistant Secretary (for Agricultural Stabilization) James T. Ralph and Ralph's assistant, William E. Morris; Ralph and Morris selected more than $1,000 worth of clothing, which was billed to Estes. In October, Estes came in again, this time with Emery E. Jacobs, deputy administrator of the Commodity Stabilization Service. After Jacobs had selected $1,433.20 worth of clothing, including a $245 suit and a $195 sports coat, Estes went into the fitting room with...
...market this year is also loaded with gifts for those who are on the make for the unusual. Neiman's, whose glamour item last year was His and Her airplanes, this year is featuring an ermine bathrobe ($6,975), and Manhattan Jeweler Harry Winston has a nice diamond and emerald necklace for $275,000. An Albuquerque blood bank is selling a $5 gift certificate that is good for all the emergency transfusions a family might need in a year. Abercrombie & Fitch has a beer-can launcher ($24.95) for men who like to combine their shooting with their drinking...
...Citizens' Council (no kin to the South's demagogic White Citizens' Councils), but picking up their own tabs, 146 Negro clergymen, business leaders and their wives spread through the city. Their destinations ranged from Woolworth's lunch counters to the swank Zodiac Room at Neiman-Marcus' specialty store. Nowhere were they refused service...
...Neiman-Marcus' carrying case for Mom's contact lenses; Tiffany's sterling vermeil decorative rose...
Though it draws the biggest promotional splash, the carriage trade is only a small fraction of Neiman-Marcus' business. "We are geared to sell the oilman," says Marcus, "but even more, the oilman's secretary." Still, it is the very special sale that pleases him most. In one working day last week, Marcus came up with the gift for the "man who has everything, including a hangover," and sold a portable oxygen tank. Another customer who wanted "something new" got a watch specially made without numbers (it had only a single black dot). And then, of course...