Word: gimbel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sudden and simultaneous resignation of six directors from the board of a big corporation is a pretty good sign that somewhere the gears are clashing. Not so with Manhattan's Madison Square Garden Corp.-or so said resigning Board Chairman Bernard Gimbel last week when he and his old friend and fellow director, James Dougan Norris, fistfight promoter extraordinary, parted financial company...
...longtime fight fan, and an amateur boxer himself in his younger days, Department Store Magnate Gimbel, 70. had served on the Garden board for 25 years, been its chairman for ten. But Barney Gimbel said firmly that his resignation had nothing to do with State Athletic Commissioner Julius Helfand's investigation into the affairs of Jim Norris' International Boxing Club, which has a strangle hold on big-time professional boxing. Yes, Gimbel was aware that SPORTS ILLUSTRATED had exposed the connections between Multi-millionaire Norris and underworld characters such as Frankie Carbo. Yes, he had heard Norris testify...
...Disneyland (Wed. 7:30 p.m., A.B.C). The Story of Donald Duck. Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow interviews Manhattan Merchant Adam Gimbel and Yankee Catcher Yogi Berra. Damon Runyon Theater (Sat. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Broderick Crawford in Dancing Dan's Christmas. General Electric Theater (Sun 9 p.m., CBS). The Windmill, with James Stewart. A-Bomb Test Blast (Tues., 8 a.m.. CBS and NBC). On-the-spot (Yucca Flat, Nev.) radio-TV coverage. Bob Hope (Tues. 9 p.m., NBC). With Lloyd Nolan, French Songstress Line Renaud...
BERNARD F. GIMBEL...
...major price breakthrough showed up in Manhattan where R. H. Macy & Co. and Gimbel Bros, teamed up against Lionel Corp.'s suit to stop the department stores from cutting prices on electric trains. Macy accused Lionel of discriminating against the department stores in favor of discount houses, of using department stores as "showcases and [to] provide ... an umbrella for price-cutting ..." Said Macy Attorney Donald Smiley: "Discount houses have been making a mockery of Fair Trade prices." As a result, Macy, Gimbels and other New York department stores kept right on discounting scores of Fair Trade products, and were...