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Four blocks from the White House, on the corner of 14th and F Streets, stands the nine-story building of Julius Garfinckel & Co. It is Washington's answer to the oft-repeated charge that the nation's capital is a town of dowdy women. In Gar-nnckel's show windows are strapless pink tulles by Dior, tobacco-colored satins by Path and organdies by Adrian. Last week Garfinckel's added another famed trademark to its collection: a crest with a lion rampant and a Pegasus, and the motto "Our words and deeds agree." It bought control...
...thing that nobody ever expected to hear at Brooks Brothers was heard last week. After 129 years in the Brooks family, the firm had been sold. The buyer: Julius Garfinckel & Co., Inc., Washington's top men's and women's specialty shop...
With characteristic reluctance to make unseemly details public, Brooks Brothers' President Winthrop Holly Brooks, fourth of the line, would discuss neither the price nor the reason for selling. (Reportedly, President Brooks has never liked the clothing business.) Garfinckel's President Clarence G. Sheffield would say only that there will be no change in traditional Brooks Brothers policies...
...Evans Hughes, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But the rich and notable are by no means Brooks's only customers. In recent years, it has sold suits for as little as $43, built up annual sales volume to an estimated $5 million. There was a horrid rumor last week that Garfinckel's considered this volume too low, might install a line of women's clothing. To the loyal wearers of the No. 1 Sack Coat this was not only unmentionable, it was unthinkable...
Learned counsel pleaded the defense: Charles Henry Tuttle, onetime U. S. Attorney (New York), and Joseph E. Davies, onetime Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. President William Green of A. F. of L., Senator Copeland of New York and Washington, Merchant Julius Garfinckel came to praise the defendant's character. So did Edward ("Just Call Me Eddie") McCloskey, ex-prize-fighting Mayor of Johnstown, Pa., who offered B. E. F. mendicants a home and then had to run them out. Said Mayor McCloskey: "I didn't think the Hoover Administration was so dumb as to put on anything like this...