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Filene's, which could sniff a bargain halfway across the continent, had bought $1,400,000 worth of merchandise damaged in a fire at Dallas' Neiman-Marcus Co. three months ago. In beating out about six other bidders, Filene's had pulled off one of the biggest "fire sale" coups in U.S. merchandising history...
...never publicly advertised her ties. But with some 100 retail outlets such as Chicago's Marshall Field & Co. and Dallas' Neiman-Marcus (which gave her its 1944 award for fabric design) clamoring for all she could send, the business expanded so rapidly that she finally had to hire two artists to help her turn out some 800-odd designs this year. That's still not enough, because her customers often insist on buying ties by the dozen. Among her strangely mixed clientele: William Randolph Hearst Sr., Frank Sinatra, Noel Coward, David Dubinsky and Harry Truman, who once...
Lawrence Fernsworth, a Neiman Fellow and formerly a foreign correspondent for the London Times, agreed with the heads of labor "that the time is premature for a National Service Act. Industry, labor, and agriculture are producing at capacity," he said, adding that "the measure is opposed to the American system, and I don't think it will pass...
...expert: Howard Stanley Marcus (Dallas' elegant Neiman-Marcus), able department-store executive who stitched up famed WPB Order L85 for conserving yardage in wartime dresses. Crowed Expert Marcus: "New York is finished as a manufacturing center. . . . They're making clothes in Kansas, Philadelphia and Texas now and they won't give it up. The day is gone when only a New York dress is a good dress...
...playlets themselves varied in tone and quality : the two lightest were the two best. Pfc. John B. O'Dea's Where E'er We Go was a lively stenographic report of talk in barracks, with some good cracks tossed in by the stenographer. Corporal Irving G. Neiman's Button Your Lip was a comic free-for-all about dazed rookies, daffy rumors and the presence in camp of a glamorous star. At each performance a different star - Gertrude Lawrence, Ilona Massey, Carole Landis, Gypsy Rose Lee - turned up in person for the tag line...