Word: gimbel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Frederic A. Gimbel, 73, retired head of Manhattan's Gimbels department store, who helped his brother Bernard expand the family dry-goods business into an empire with annual sales of $560 million and 53 stores cross country, personally quadrupling sales in his own shop; of heart disease; in Pacific Palisades, Calif...
...Avenue for 62 blocks with a band of light. At Herald Square, Macy's windows add an Eastern accent with some 200 animated figures, ranging from girls dancing in mosques (a practice not allowed by Moslems) to silk-garbed courtiers watching performing jugglers. Across the street its archrival, Gimbel's, counters with a real-life Santa who descends a wooden chimney every 15 minutes, talks through a microphone to the kids on the street, and-of course-invites everyone inside. Even the minor squares are dressed to the nines. The graceful Pulitzer Memorial fountain in front...
Thursday, November 25 THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE JUBILEE (CBS, 10 a.m.-noon). Four parades-Macy's in New York, Gimbel's in Philadelphia, Hudson's in Detroit and Eaton's in Toronto. Macy's gets fuller treatment from NBC in a two-hour show beginning...
...inaugural gala and they were all there, from a pride of Rockefellers to Mrs. Fred Eberstadt in her Yves St. Laurent black mink-and-vinyl coat. And loving it. "Beautiful," exclaimed Saks Fifth Avenue President Adam Gimbel. "Glorious," said onetime White House Arts Adviser August Heckscher. "The most beautiful theater," exclaimed Hollywood Producer Otto Preminger. "Marvelous and effective," said Playwright Alan Jay Lerner. So, last week, with a popping of flashbulbs and champagne corks, the Vivian Beaumont Theater, latest unit to join Manhattan's Lincoln Center, swung into orbit with its opening production, Georg Buechner's 130-year...
Parke-Bernet's handful of stockholders resisted Sotheby's bid for months, some expressing reluctance to relinquish control to a foreign company. Last week Richard Gimbel, the sole remaining U.S. stockholder, charged that "the American flag has been sold down the river." Sotheby's Wilson tried to soothe feelings with artful reasoning: "I'm sure you would find people in my country who said the same thing when Ford bought into England. One-way traffic is undesirable...