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Rosenfeld had more than new dresses to show off; he had also brought out a line of low-priced women's suits, his first venture into that field. He got the idea from Adam Gimbel, president of Manhattan's Saks Fifth Avenue, who asked Rosenfeld for some summer suits to sell for $25. In less than six weeks, Rosenfeld sold 125,000 suits to stores all over the U.S., and Saks alone thinks that it may sell...
Died. Ellis A. Gimbel, 84, department-store magnate (Gimbel Brothers, Inc., Saks Fifth Avenue), philanthropist; in Philadelphia...
...draftsmen were busier than ever spreading that name & fame on a dozen new projects. They had signed up to modernize Raglands department store on Texas' famed King Ranch (TIME, Dec. 15, 1947); they had just completed the first part of a face-lifting for Manhattan's Gimbel Brothers (cried Gimbels in full-page ads: "We are speechless"). Their new two-level Greyhound bus (the Scenicruiser) was being road-tested on Michigan roads. For California they were planning a state fair...
When Schulte turned in a $93,091 loss for the first six months of 1949, the directors eased President Louis Goldvogel up to chairman of the board and brought in 50-year-old H. Cornell Smith, onetime merchandising manager of Manhattan's Gimbel Bros, department store. Smith has tackled some big jobs in his time. As a World War II colonel on General Somervell's staff, he helped organize the billion-dollar Wartime Post Exchange system, and the Pacific supply centers for the never-launched invasion of Japan...
...people bearing the names of Frick, Carnegie, Mellon. These were men who had made the city great-and who had left behind the ugly, lordly buildings in the business section, their monuments to Coal, Coke, Iron, Steel, Aluminum, who had left behind their Duquesne Club squatting beside Gimbel's department store, their mansions of monstrous Victorian architecture...