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Jul 3, 2024 · As ice gathered several inches thick on the Hudson River and the mercury plummeted below freezing, Hortense Odlum stepped from her chauffeured car onto the Fifth Avenue sidewalk.
Jul 10, 2024 · Allison Stewart: Hortense Odlum. She was from a Mormon family in Utah, and she fell into her position through her husband initially. How did her husband come to own Bonwit Teller? Let's start there. Julie Satow: Floyd Odlum was her husband. He was a Wall Street tycoon.
1 day ago · Hortense Odlum is an unusual choice to profile as she was president of Bonwit Teller for barely seven years. She had never worked a day when her husband picked up an ailing Bonwit's as an investment. Hortense reluctantly took on the task of updating staid Bonwit's, ostensibly to allow him more time with his manicurist girlfriend.
4 days ago · Floyd Odlum, to whom the aviatrix was married last year, is eminent in the world of finance and is known as the man who built the Atlas Corporation into one of the most successful investment trusts. — Oakland Tribune , Vol. CXXVII, No. 27, Tuesday, 27 July 1937, Page 1, Column 3
Jul 10, 2024 · He was Floyd Bostwick Odlum, founder of Atlas Corp. and chief executive officer of RKO Studios (prior to Howard Hughes). At the time, he was reputed to be one of the 10 wealthiest men in the world. Two months later, he called her, and they began seeing each other.
Jul 2, 2024 · In When Women Ran Fifth Avenue (Doubleday, $32.50), Satow, who divides her time between New York City and Jamesport, unearths the stories of three women who reigned over New York's elite retail...
4 days ago · Though much of the building’s limestone exterior remained unremarkable, its entrance—made from platinum, bronze, hammered aluminum, orange and yellow faience, and tinted glass—was referred to by...
