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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...
...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...