Charles McNair 2012

The Revolutionists of Retailing (Fortune 1962)

07.08.11

FORTUNE -- In a mood of reflection some months ago, Professor Malcolm McNair of Harvard Business School, the dean of U.S. authorities on retailing, nominated the six greatest merchants in U.S. history. The six men are Frank W. Woolworth; John Wanamaker; J. C. Penney ( JCP ); General Robert E. Wood, who in the 1920's and 1930's converted Sears, Roebuck ( SHLD ) from a mail-order house into the world's largest retailer; Michael Cullen, the "inventor" of the food supermarket; and a diffident young man of forty-one named Eugene Ferkauf.

The name, which means "sell" in German, is only dimly known even in retailing circles. But Ferkauf's influence has been explosive. He is the founder and controlling stockholder of E. J. 'Korvette, the nation's largest "discount house." Korvette started operations in 1948, selling luggage and appliances' at less than list price in an upstairs loft on New York's East Forty-sixth Street. Today Korvette sells a full line of department-store merchandise, from sheets to shirts to furniture, at prices 10 to 30 per cent below the prevailing level, in seventeen department stores in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. The company has opened four stores since August, and plans seven to ten more over the next two years; next month it will open a store at Fifth Avenue and Forty-seventh Street in New York, two blocks down from Saks Fifth Avenue ( SKS ), in the building formerly occupied by W. & J. Sloane, the hundred-year-old furniture store.

Source: Fortune (blog)

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Rings true to the world you know, how bleak must your life be?

Is it a good mystery? Maybe, if you can find mystery in a book where you don’t like or admire or care for a single character.

Does it rise to a reasonable standard as literature? You decide. Here’s a passage:

One night the girl tried to escape from the house and the boy and I chased her down the street with flashlights and then onto another street where he tackled her just before dawn. We dragged the girl quickly back inside the house and she was tied up and put in what I had told them to refer to as the kennel, which was her bedroom. ‘Say thank you,’ I told the girl when I brought out a plate of cupcakes laced with laxative and made the girl and boy eat them because it was their reward. Smeared with shit, I was pushing my fist into the girl and her lips were clinging tightly around my wrist and she seemed to be trying to make sense of me while I stared back at her flatly, my arm sticking out of her, my fist clenching and unclenching in her cunt, and then her mouth opened with shock and she started shrieking until the boy lowered his cock into her mouth, gagging her, and the sound of crickets kept playing over the scene.

Who were the other architects that worked with Charles Rennie Mackintosh in the 1890's?

May 20, 2009 by Jayne | Posted in History

There is a photo of him, when he worked at Honeyman and Keppie in the 1890's, in Pamela Robertson's book of his Architectural Papers. There is also McNair and Keppie, but who are the other gentlemen? I am doing this from memory, as I have glanced at the

Charles Rennie Mackintosh attended evening classes in art at the Glasgow School of Art. It was at these classes that he first met his future wife Margaret MacDonald, her sister Frances MacDonald, and Herbert MacNair who was also a fellow apprentice with

runforfree | May 20, 2009

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