Minding the Store

Title Page, Frontispiece, Copyright, Dedication

Minding the Store Photo by Laura Wilson Stanley Marcus, 1997 Stanley Marcus Minding the Store A MEMOIR Facsimile Edition for University of North Texas Press Denton, Texas © 1974 by Stanley Marcus All rights reserved.© 1997 Facsimile Edition Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to Permissions University of North Texas Press 1155 Union Circle 311336 Denton, Texas 76203-5017 The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, z39.48.1984. Binding materials have been chosen for durability. The author is grateful to the following publishers and authors for permission to reprint previously copyrighted materials: Fortune magazine, for an excerpt from the article "Dallas in Wonderland" by Louis Kronenberger, as published in its November 1937 issue, copyright © 1937 Time Inc.; and for an excerpt from the article "America Is in Fashion" by Stanley Marcus, as published in its November 1939 issue, copyright © 1939 by Time Inc. North American Newspaper Alliance and the Bell syndicate, for the column "Pitching Horseshoes" by Billie Rose, published in the Dallas Times Herald, December 5, 1949. Women's Wear Daily, for the article "From Where I Sit" by Samuel Feinberg, as published in its December 15, 1967, issue, copyright © 1967, Fairchild Publications, Inc.; and for one paragraph from the editorial "Industry Owes Appreciation for Fashion Understanding in Rulings of L-85" by Winnifred 1. Ovitte, as published in its April 8, 1942, issue, copyright © 1942, Fairchild Publications, Inc. Selma Robinson, for an excerpt from her article "Texas Tells 'Em," as published in Collier's September 16, 1939. United Press International, for a portion of an interview by Robert Musel, as published in the Dallas Morning News, March 7, 1971. Newsday, for an excerpt from the column "Despite Defensive Front, Dallas Is Doing Penance" by Marguerite Higgins, as published in the Chicago Daily News, January 7, 1964, copyright © 1964, Newsday, Inc. Paul Crume, for one of his "Big D" columns as published in the Dallas Morning News, December 6, 1959. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Marcus, Stanley, 1905-2002 Minding the store: a memoir / by Stanley Marcus. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 978-1-57441-039-6 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-57441-139-3 (paperback: alk paper) ISBN 978-1-57441-522-3 (ebook) 1. Marcus, Stanley, 1905-2002. 2. BusinesspeopleBiography I. Title. HF5429.5.D2M37 1997 381'.14'092--dc21 [B] 97-13287 CIP Dedicated to My Father Who Was and to My Son Who Is ...