OTHER NEWS - Sept. 11, 1991

Neiman Marcus Unveils Christmas Catalogue: Neiman Marcus shoppers can equip themselves for wartime or hard times with gifts offered in the store’s 1991 Christmas Book, including $50,000 his-and-hers military-style vehicles like those used in the Gulf War. The venerable vendor of valuables recognized this year that some of its clients may have fallen on hard times with the recession. So, it kept a group of presents in its holiday catalogue at $25 or less. The Dallas-based department store chain has peddled his-and-hers hot-air balloons, submarines, airplanes and camels since it introduced the his-and-hers transportation catalogue 31 years ago. This year’s offering is the all-terrain Hummer, known by the military as the humvee, which gained national attention during the war.