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A Woman Ahead or Her Time,
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This review is from: A woman's place: The autobiography of Hortense Odlum (Signal lives)
Hortense McQuarrie Odlem was a small-town girl from southern Utah. She married, moved back east and raised sons giving the task her best and was well rewarded. She was happy listing her occupation as "housewife". This experience was of no small value when out of the blue her husband clobbered her with the job of saving a major New York department store for one of his clients. The store about to collapse from the inept management of men who had not one shred of common sense, became a second career for Hortense. Confidence in her ability to fix what was obviously wrong gave her the courage to take "Bonwit Teller" in her firm yet patient hands and transform the store into the talk of the town. Her husband started by buying her a briefcase and as things began to turn around she was installed as President. She made her employees love her, her competition respect her, her customer's trust her and her financiers adore her. She became a major trendsetter. She had Salvador Dali doing her window dressings. Yes it's all true and she wrote all about it in 1939. This is a wonderful book and perhaps all the more inspiring because of the world and times she lived in. This story stays with you for life.
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A woman's place: The autobiography of Hortense Odlum (Signal lives) by Hortense McQuarrie Odlum (Unknown Binding - 1980)
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