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...once-great trading post of Vincennes, Ind., there is no longer a Gimbel Brothers-owned store; but four Gimbels went there last week to honor their tribe and business, founded there just 100 years ago. At table's head sat Grandson Bernard, president of Gimbel Brothers, Inc. and present family hetman. Knowing his genealogy as well as his retailing (to a Gimbel, the two are one), Bernard proudly enumerated the far-flung Gimbel line...
...Ayres & Co., Indianapolis; Barker Bros. Corp., Los Angeles; Bloomingdale's, Manhattan; Famous-Barr Co., St. Louis; Marshall Field & Co., Chicago; Gimbel Bros., Philadelphia; Jordan Marsh Co., Boston; The Halle Bros. Co., Cleveland; The J. L. Hudson Co., Detroit; Kaufmann Department Stores, Inc., Pittsburgh; The F. & R. Lazarus & Co., Columbus; Wolf & Dessauer, Fort Wayne...
Last week, Wichita Bill's widow got her hands on this travesty. She had spotted it among the Hearst Collection items put on view last winter at Gimbel's Department Store in Manhattan. To buy it back she spent $295 she had saved to get Wichita Bill a tombstone for his grave. Carefully she cut out and saved the sunrise from the center of the canvas (she thought this part was up to scratch), then took a carving knife and slashed the rest to ribbons...
Since department stores, like railroads, have a relatively inflexible overhead, their profits tend to rise faster than their sales. In the fiscal year ended Jan. 31, 1941, Gimbel Brothers upped earnings 67% on an 8% sales gain; Associated Dry Goods lifted profits 15% while sales rose 3%. Last week Marshall Field paid twice its usual dividend; Bloomingdale also increased its payment...
Last week one of these women was honored, another oldtimer died. In Philadelphia Dr. Catharine Macfarlane, professor of gynecology at Women's Medical College (only exclusively women's medical school in the world) won the Gimbel award of $1,000 for her clinic to control cancer in women (TIME, June 5, 1939). In Haddam, Conn., death came to Dr. Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, 73, sentimental historian of women doctors (Medical Women of America; A History of Women in Medicine). Among the noted women whose careers she noted...