Word: garfinckel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latest outburst of the JarmanHoving feud came last week, and it concerned control of Julius Garfinckel & Co., which runs not only the District of Columbia's highest quality fashion store, but also, as a subsidiary, Manhattan's famed Brooks Brothers. For at least six years, Hoving has tried, and failed, to take over Garfinckel & Co. Jarman recently made a tender offer of $43.50 per share for 575,000 of Gar-finckel's 1,075,000 outstanding shares. At a press conference, Jarman said that Garfinckel's was a "pretty sleepy" company, which had neglected its opportunities...
Died. Winthrop Holley Brooks, 73, former president (1935-46) and board chairman (1946-51) of sartorially impeccable Brooks Brothers, fourth successor to Founder Henry Sands Brooks, who wanted to be a cowboy but reluctantly tended the store until he sold "B.B." in 1946 to Washington's Julius Garfinckel & Co.; after a long illness; in New York City...