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Died. Lee-Adam Gimbel, 34, Manhattan stockbroker (Sartorius & Smith), onetime member of the New York Stock Exchange, onetime vice president and director of Gimbel Bros. Inc. (Manhattan department store); by falling or jumping from a 16th story window of the Yale Club; in Manhattan...
Last week the man was found, engaged, announced. New president will be Lionel J. Noah, the conservative, shrewd Yankee who is now executive vice president of Gimbel Brothers, Philadelphia. More surprising and newsworthy was the simultaneous announcement that chairman of the executive committee will be William Bishop Warner, president of McCall Corp., publishers of McCall's Magazine (circulation 2,500,000); McCall Quarterly; McCall Needlework and Decorative Arts; McCall Style News; Red Book Magazine. McCall Corp. also publishes and distributes fashion patterns. Chairman Warner knows the retail field, knows much about distribution, and his press can do much...
...Gans v. Battling Nelson). In Manhattan's Madison Square Garden he sat at a 2-ton bronze desk, dispersed bills to knowing panhandlers as he passed out of the building. He brought dress suits, decollete gowns to the ringside, was dined by 500 tycoons (Schwab, Baruch, Ringling, Chrysler, Mackay, Gimbel). Always he cringed from surgery. He died of infection following an operation for gangrenous appendicitis...
...Gimbel Bros. Inc.: Lee Adam Gimbel, 32, as Vice President; to become a trader on the New York Stock Exchange; at a cost, for his seat...
...small town has its beauty specialist, its "parlors," where creams and lotions, pastes, lipsticks, rouges, powders are on sale. As an industry, cosmetics making has all the modern paraphernalia. It has its trade papers (Toilet Requisites, Toilet Goods Economist), its federal supervision (no health-destroying chemicals), its radio programs (Gimbel Bros. Station WGBS...