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...swam down . . . we were stunned and awestruck at the immensity of the ship as she took form beneath us."-Peter Gimbel...
...York Aquarium. Twenty-five years ago, on July 26, 1956, only eleven hours after colliding with the Swedish liner Stockholm, the Andrea Doria, flagship of the Italian Line, sank some 250 ft. down to the continental shelf. Fifty lives were lost. The next day Department Store Heir Peter Gimbel, then 28, went chugging out to sea looking for the buoy that marked the Andrea Doria 's grave about 50 miles south of Nantucket. Gimbel dove through a cloud of rising air bubbles to the ship...
...Gimbel has remained an intrepid gentleman adventurer: swimming under Antarctic ice, exploring remote Andean ranges, filming the great white shark. In 1976 he and his wife Elga Andersen, a former German actress, produced a documentary on the Andrea Doria. Last July they set out to make another, backed by the latest in underwater technology...
DIED. Bruce A. Gimbel, 67, merchant-sportsman who for 22 years headed the department-store chain that grew out of a single emporium in Indiana established by his grandfather Adam in 1842; of cardiac arrest; in Greenwich, Conn. An avid private pilot as well as a shrewd businessman, Gimbel led the chain's expansion into the growing suburbs in the '50s. In 1973 he negotiated sale of the firm, then 10% owned by the Gimbel family and now comprising 69 Gimbels and Saks Fifth Avenue stores, to a subsidiary of the British-American Tobacco Co. for $195 million...
...aides, Ron Fairbanks. The sleuth is given authority to question even the President himself if necessary. Fairbanks, it happens, has an affair of the heart with the President's daughter Lynne. He also has a consuming hatred for the Haldermanic White House Chief of Staff, Fritz Gimbel, who may or may not have murdered the Secretary. The plot builds up to a superb denouement. One wonders if all is fiction. For example, President Webster's description of Congress: "A collection of minor-league dipsomaniacs and fugitives from dementia praecox. "Echoes of Harry...