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Married. Maida Heatter, 33, daughter of schmalzy Radioracle Gabriel Heatter; and Ellis A. Gimbel Jr., fiftyish, Manhattan broker, member of the Gimbel department store clan; both for the second time; in Freeport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 26, 1949 | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...isolated case. Summer clothes in stores all over the U.S. were going at bargain rates. In Atlanta, Rich's offered $4 cotton dresses (40% below last year). In Nashville, Harvey's department store slashed all its prices by 35% to 40%. Manhattan's Gimbel Bros, put on sale $1 million worth of summer merchandise at cut prices. In Chicago, Mandel Brothers sold $18 summer dresses for $7. Montgomery Ward & Co. also swung a sharp ax. It cut prices from 10% to 40%; washing machines were off 10% to 15%; porch furniture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unseasonal Weather | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Manhattan's Bloomingdale's puffed such items as quilted skirts, velveteen trousers (for "after skiing"), and powder-blue parkas embroidered with Alpine flowers described as "too pretty to be tucked in." At Saks Fifth Avenue, Sophie Gimbel paraded a ground-length after-skiing ensemble with stole (price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHIONS: Over the Whimsies | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

Born. To Henry Benjamin ("Hank") Greenberg, 37, the Detroit Tigers' onetime home-run king, now part owner and vice president of the Cleveland Indians, and Caral Gimbel Greenberg, 32, department store heiress: their second child, second son; in Manhattan. Name: Christopher. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 20, 1948 | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...week's hottest prospective purchaser: Eleanor Gimbel, one of PM's original backers, cousin-by-marriage of the department-store Gimbels, national chairman of Women for Wallace. If she bought it, there'd be some changes made: PM has al ready declared against Wallace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Late Afternoon of PM | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

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