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...Angeles department store, a salesgirl took from her purse a paper bearing the letters V, M, B and S. Beside each, she scribbled numbers, then mailed the sheet to Manhattan's Simplicity Pattern Co. She was reporting on dress-pattern sales in her department - strictly as a favor to the flattering Simplicity salesman who had presented her with a smile and a shiny silver compact. In 100 key U.S. stores, other girls did Simplicity a like favor...
Last week in Manhattan, Simplicity's President Joseph Michael Shapiro, 58, who is cut to a short, chunky pattern, added up the reports with a pleased smile. They told him that the pattern business was booming as never before. At the present rate he believes thrifty women will buy 15% more patterns this year than the record-breaking 120 million sold in 1946. More important to Shapiro - who knew that V, M and B meant Simplicity's potent competitors, Vogue, McCall and Butterick - it proved that S was more than holding its own as the biggest U.S. pattern...
...this pattern of success, President "Pop" Shapiro had a seven-word formula neatly printed on a small sign on his oak-stained desk: "Fools invent fashions-wise men follow them...
Things began to fall into place. Last week the Truman Doctrine, still not entirely clear to Washington, was having crystal clear effects in other capitals. In Hungary, the Communists pushed out the democrats (see FOREIGN NEWS). In France and Italy, the democrats pushed out the Communists. The pattern made sense...
Professor Pound's reputation rests on the philosophy of "sociological jurisprudence," which he conceived and pioneered. Law became for him no mere pattern of rules. The aim of the law was, he enunciated, not just stability or the ordering of individual wills. Rather it was to harmonize the conflicting interests in society through the force of an organized political structure. "We may think of the task of the legal order," Professor Pound summed up, "as one of precluding friction and eliminating waste; of conserving the goods of existence in order to make them go as far as possible...