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Merwin Bayer Dies

Former head of Arnold Constable in New York was 88

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22 years ago

February 2, 2004

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Merwin Bayer, president of the Arnold Constable Corp. (New York) when it was one of Manhattan's finest luxury department stores, died in New York last month. He was 88.

Bayer was hired as a clerk in the store's receiving department in 1933. He became president and ceo in 1965.

The flagship store, founded in 1825, was on Fifth Avenue and 40th Street. Its claim to fame in the 1930s and 40s was that it was first lady Eleanor Roosevelt's favorite store. The chain was closed in 1976, with Bayer admitting it didn't have the funds necessary to renovate its stores, but the company retained ownership in No-Name Stores until it was sold in the 1990s to YM Inc. (Toronto).

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