Word: simonize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...union with McCall Corp. will give the 37-year-old Saturday Review a hard-driving new proprietor: West Coast Industrialist (wood, matches, processed food) Norton Simon, 53, who began acquiring control of McCall Corp. in 1954. Simon has promised his new possession editorial independence-a promise that presumably extends to Editor Cousins' numerous extracurricular crusades, most notable of which is his co-chairmanship of SANE, a citizens' group dedicated to the final abolition of nuclear tests. But independence can be a relative thing. Only after Cousins & Co. have finally moved into McCall's spacious quarters...
FATE IS THE HUNTER (390 pp.)-Ernest K. Gann-Simon & Schuster...
Trust Everybody. Sir Simon also gambled that customers are as trustworthy as sales clerks, and stopped giving out sales receipts, which most stores demand before they will take merchandise back from a customer. Now, as long as an article bears the M. & S. special St. Michael brand name (commemorating his father), it is easily exchanged at any branch. He threw out time clocks, reasoning that it was silly to keep tabs on employees who were only occasionally late, just to catch the few consistently late arrivers whose habits would be known to supervisors anyway. He silenced the jangling bell...
Luxury for All. Sir Simon inherited 70 penny bazaars from his father in 1907, expanded by convincing Britons that his green-and-gold-fronted stores were about the most efficient in the country and had the best bargains. His Marble Arch branch in London makes more money per square foot than any other store in the world, says Sir Simon, even though goods are limited to women's clothes, men's shirts, socks and sweaters, and food specialties. His merchandising credo is to give everyone "a little bit of luxury, to make a factory girl look like...
...Simon still spends much of his time poking about his stores, chatting with clerks to see how much more paper work can be cut out. Any operation that has been in effect over six months-long enough for the paper work to sprout-is under suspicion...