Word: gimbel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Wichita Bill's widow got her hands on this travesty. She had spotted it among the Hearst Collection items put on view last winter at Gimbel's Department Store in Manhattan. To buy it back she spent $295 she had saved to get Wichita Bill a tombstone for his grave. Carefully she cut out and saved the sunrise from the center of the canvas (she thought this part was up to scratch), then took a carving knife and slashed the rest to ribbons...
Since department stores, like railroads, have a relatively inflexible overhead, their profits tend to rise faster than their sales. In the fiscal year ended Jan. 31, 1941, Gimbel Brothers upped earnings 67% on an 8% sales gain; Associated Dry Goods lifted profits 15% while sales rose 3%. Last week Marshall Field paid twice its usual dividend; Bloomingdale also increased its payment...
Last week one of these women was honored, another oldtimer died. In Philadelphia Dr. Catharine Macfarlane, professor of gynecology at Women's Medical College (only exclusively women's medical school in the world) won the Gimbel award of $1,000 for her clinic to control cancer in women (TIME, June 5, 1939). In Haddam, Conn., death came to Dr. Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, 73, sentimental historian of women doctors (Medical Women of America; A History of Women in Medicine). Among the noted women whose careers she noted...
Cautious, publicity-shy Adam Gimbel, president of Saks Fifth Avenue, was the No. 1 pre-war U. S. buyer of Paris high-style merchandise. But "Skap's" stand made him see red. His wife Sophie had recently completed showing her own custom-made midseason collection, without any help from Paris, was full of excitement about fine textiles and exclusive gewgaws that she had been able to coax out of hitherto mass-production-minded U. S. manufacturers. Said Mr. Gimbel: "The Paris of the old days is not the Paris under totalitarian government. Schiaparelli is either misguided-or under...
...samples of the new shop's $1,000,000 stock of top-notch gowns, furs, jewels. They bought $30,000 worth -a fine day's business. Mindful of his Hollywood debut two years ago when police had to hold back the crowds and resuscitate fainting women, Adam Gimbel used no initial advertising. Nonetheless, the Detroit papers were kind to him. One reason for that may have been that he had made a deal with the Fisher brothers. His shop is in their New Center Building, close to the General Motors and Fisher office buildings, an area which Banker...