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Raymond was inspired to start Victoria's Secret after feeling embarrassed purchasing lingerie for his wife in a department store. [8] [9] To open the store, he borrowed $40,000 from a bank and $40,000 from his family. [10] Roy and Gaye Raymond worked together to design and launch the first store with a Victorian-inspired style.
Victoria's Secret is an American lingerie, clothing, and beauty retailer. Founded in 1977 by Roy and Gaye Raymond, [ 6 ][ 7 ] the company's five lingerie stores were sold to Les Wexner in 1982. [ 8 ] Wexner rapidly expanded into American shopping malls, growing the company into 350 stores nationally with sales of $1 billion by the early 1990s ...
The V.I.P.s (also known as Hotel International) is a 1963 British comedy-drama film in Metrocolor and Panavision.It was directed by Anthony Asquith, produced by Anatole de Grunwald, and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. [4]
David Charles Smith, 93, passed away at his home on Thursday with his wife of 67 years, Isabelle, at his side, according to his family obituary. Smith was respected for his humor, wit and most of ...
Stuart E. McGowan. Ruth Woodman. September 29, 1953 (1953-09-29) A dance hall woman (Ann Savage) is disliked by the ladies of the town until she takes care of the ill during an epidemic. Stars Charles Victor, Jill Jarman, Myra McKinney, Phil Rich, Joan Danton, Leonard Penn, Dorothy Adams, Hal Smith and Reed Howes. 20.
October 17, 1989. Faye Della Copeland (née Wilson; August 4, 1921 – December 23, 2003) and Raymond W. Copeland (December 30, 1914 – October 19, 1993) became, at the ages of 69 and 76 respectively, the oldest couple ever sentenced to death in the United States. They were convicted of killing five drifters at their farm in Mooresville, Missouri.
On Christmas Day 1983, Gaye gave his father a Smith & Wesson.38 Special pistol so that he could protect himself from intruders. [16] Friends and family members contended that the younger Marvin was often suicidal and paranoid, and by now was afraid of leaving his room and spoke of little besides suicide and death.
Raymond Joseph Smith (12 March 1930 – 18 February 2008) was an American educator, author, and book editor. He was for more than 30 years the editor of Ontario Review , a literary magazine , and the Ontario Review Press, a literary book publisher.