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...cultural shifts--football overtakes baseball, salsa defeats ketchup--that signal bigger changes: here, in the relationship between the community and the individual. In a traditional Christmas story, the larger holiday is a social good. It uplifts the suicidal, raises every voice in Whoville, renders peace between Macy and Gimbel. Those who reject it--Scrooge, the Grinch--must be forced into its tinseled embrace. Community is all, as in Wonderful Life's blend of World War II patriotism and New Deal populism: your money's in the Kennedy house and Mrs. Macklin's house and a hundred others...
...periods, leaving his wife Mamie and the boys, Neil and Danny, who was eight years older, to fend for themselves. Says Simon: "Each time he came back I thought, 'At last, we're together.' But it kept on like a yo-yo." Mamie Simon was resourceful: she worked at Gimbel's department store; she ran poker games in the house and took a cut of each pot. At the hardest times Neil and his mother were taken in by kindly relatives, a situation Simon reversed in Brighton Beach, where he portrayed his family as the host rather than the guest...
...this a newly minted version of the classic Macy's vs. Gimbel's rivalry? "It's absolutely a battle," says Steven Keith Platt of the Platt Retail Institute, an industry think tank in Hindale, Ill. "They're both going after the same market--the female. She controls the purse strings." Both chains dismiss the notion of a retail slugfest. But it is clear that each chain is borrowing a page from the other's business model. For example, 22 of the 25 stores that Penney opened in the third quarter were situated in very Kohl's-like locales, a different...
SCHRAFFT'S, GIMBEL'S, THE BILTMORE Hotel: all are gone. But one beloved New York City institution blessedly prospers: the RADIO CITY CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR. One million people are expected to see the 60th edition of the Music Hall show (through Jan. 6), double the number of a decade ago. No wonder. Here's a spectacular that really is -- a lavish celebration of the spirit of Christmas simultaneously traditional and inventive. Teddy bears dance The Nutcracker, Scrooge learns compassion, ice skaters whirl around a mini Rockefeller Plaza rink, the Rockettes march The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers, and shepherds and sheep...
...complete with display cases and teller's cage. There are hundreds of marble fireplace mantels, pedestal sinks, lighting fixtures, wrought-iron gates and granite gargoyles. There are bigger chunks of history: a 5-ft.-tall, $3,500 brass-and-crystal chandelier found in a crate in Gimbel Bros.' basement, and a 9-ft.-high, 77-ft.-wide chestnut-paneled music room from a turn-of-the-century house in Southampton, N.Y. Cost: $30,000. Antique porcelain bathtubs, which can fetch $1,500 each, are the most popular items. Daniel Kasle, 34, the company's affable chief operating officer, who gave...