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...indignant mass meetings the school's Barents thought it was more than that. Cried P.T.A. President Mrs. Louis Gimbel Jr.: "Teachers College is just making a monkey of itself." But Horace Mann-Lincoln's bright, progressively educated pupils took a calmer view. Said one: 'There's nothing particularly special about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fattened Guinea Pig | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

Married. Henry Benjamin ("Hank") Greenberg, 35, sad-faced, Charley Horsy left fielder of baseball's champion Detroit Tigers; and Caral Gimbel Lasker, 30, horsy daughter of Manhattan Merchant Prince Bernard Feustman Gimbel (Gimbel Bros., Saks Fifth Avenue); he for the first time, she for the second; at Brunswick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 4, 1946 | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

Despite acute shortages of hard goods, and shoddy merchandise in general, sales were 10 to 15% higher than last year. Gimbel Brothers, Inc., reported record sales in its eleven stores of more than $2,000,000 on one day last week. Same day Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. passed the $1,000,000 mark for the third time this month (fourth time in Macy's history). San Francisco's Emporium, which did an $18,000,000 business in 1941, will top $36,000,000 this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Wrap It Up | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

Last week, the British Government gave RFC a lesson in how it should be done. In Manhattan's Gimbel Brothers, it exhibited a tiny motorcycle from British Army surpluses. By week's end, Gimbels had taken orders for 550 of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christmas Present | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

Manhattan's Gimbel Brothers, Inc., never one to be modest about its wares, last week overdid it. Said Gimbels, in full-page newspaper ads : "Plain down-to-earth Gimbels flies out with the best buy in the sky! Gimbels has Taylorcrafts [airplanes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Down to Earth? | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

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