Word: stanley
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...with only $250,000 to spend on Christmas presents this year, there is a store dedicated to providing a wide selection of worldly goods tailored to his budget: Neiman-Marcus of Texas. There he may very well be waited on by the saturnine president of the company, Stanley Marcus, 55, who scours the world looking for unique, elegant and off-beat items-and likes to sell them himself. This Christmas, for the well-heeled customer, he has a matched pair of Beechcraft airplanes neatly emblazoned "His" and "Hers" for $176,000, an espresso coffee-making machine...
...result, Neiman-Marcus is a respected name in stylish circles around the world. In the past decade Neiman-Marcus' sales have nearly doubled, will hit $41 million this year. The original store in downtown Dallas has branched into a suburban Dallas store and one in Houston. Last week Stanley Marcus announced plans for a new $2,000,000 store to be completed in 1962 in suburban Fort Worth...
...idea of a luxury store in a cattle-and-cotton city of 86,000 seemed slightly pretentious when Neiman-Marcus was founded in 1907 by Stanley's father, Herbert Marcus, and his aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Neiman. It was doing all right in 1926, with sales of $2,600,000, when Harvard-educated Stanley, then 21, went to work in the store's fur shop. Then the luxury goods really began to move. The year before the shop had sold only $74,000 worth of pelts. Using the casual, low-pressure manner that...
Through the Looking-Glass (Joan Greenwood, Stanley Holloway; Caedmon). Actress Greenwood's voice suggests that she may have eaten the looking glass on the way through. In this impeccable recording, she makes a piquant Alice ably seconded by Narrator Holloway and a neatly meshed cast. No fear of Tweedle-doldrums...
Spartacus. Director Stanley Kubrick has turned out a surprisingly impressive film about Rome's slave uprising, despite the fact that Kirk Douglas, Peter Ustinov, Jean Simmons, Sir Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton, Tony Curtis, Nina Foch and several thousand colleagues do their acting knee-deep in blood...