Word: gimbel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Healthy, wealthy, submersible Department Store Scion Peter R. Gimbel, 35, is wont to prowl around the ocean floor (he dived to the sunken Andrea Doria in 1956, again in 1957) when he is not busy with his career as an investment banker. Now rising above all that, young Gimbel joined a National Geographic Society expedition bound for the Peruvian Andes, early next month will parachute into the remote upper reaches (9,000-14,000 ft.) of the Vilcabamba range-an unmapped area never penetrated by outsiders and considered a possible site of early Inca civilization. Accompanying Gimbel on the three...
...Farley, he is "not very active because I'm not invited to be." He nonetheless keeps in fighting trim with weekly sessions in a steam-filled room, "the one place where I can relax." Among the seminude supporters sweating it out with Big Jim were Merchant Bernard F. Gimbel, 78, and onetime Heavyweight Champ Gene Tunney, 66, who read a poem-presumably in dank verse-titled Ode to a Bouncing Biltmore Bath Baby...
GEORGE GALLUP ROBERT M. GANGER WILLIAM F. GIBBS ALTHEA GIBSON SOPHIE GIMBEL DONALD A. GLASER BARRY GOLDWATER RUTH GORDON CHARLES H. GOREN CRAWFORD H. GREENEWALT GEORGE H. GRIBBIN ERNEST GRUENING MRS. WINSTON GUEST HARRY F. GUGGENHEIM
...smooth-running Wall Street operator who was once vice president of Bulova Watch. Another member of the syndicate-along with two unnamed charity trusts-was Edward G. Goldstein, a well-heeled Bostonian. Goldstein is the financial power behind Marcus & Co., which operates the jewelry departments in 20 Gimbel Bros, department stores, and also owns major interests in two other Fifth Avenue jewelers-Tecla Pearls, Inc. and Black, Starr & Frost...
...Consumer confidence has begun to reappear," beamed Bernard Gimbel, berry-eyed boss of Manhattan's Gimbel Bros. Over at Macy's, Chairman Jack I. Straus was quick to match the Gimbel grin. Said he: "Our Christmas sales this year will come close to or break the season's record." From Burdine's in Miami to the Bon Marche in Seattle, U.S. retailers last week reported the same phenomenon: with "big ticket" items such as TV sets leading the way, department stores sales spurted 6% above last year's levels during Thanksgiving week, and many stores...