Word: gimbel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conditioned Waldorf-Astoria luncheon, and a new queen was anointed by the mayor. Unable to locate a sinuous native girl to lend a straight face to the propaganda, the Visitors Bureau tapped radiant California-born Model Peggy Jacobsen, 22, summoned its hard-selling ex-president, Midtown Merchant Bernard Gimbel, to seal the deal with a kiss. Whatever his pitch may be, this was one time Gimbel would tell it to Macy's-along with everyone else...
...last year, the world's spearfishing championship (done with held breath alone) was won by California's rangy (6 ft. 2 in., 180 Ibs.) Terry Lentz, 22, who landed 15 fish weighing 106 Ibs. One of the finest free divers in the world is Security Analyst Peter Gimbel, 32, husky, Yale-bred scion of the department-store family. As a boy, Gimbel sat on the bottom of his parents' pool with a five-gallon can over his head, gulping air from a garden hose. He grew up to become a crack ocean diver, swam on the first...