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...first mannequin to be modeled after "the boss's wife" was not modeled after the wife of the president of Sakowitz [Jan. 14]. I, the wife of the former president of Saks Fifth Avenue, Adam L. Gimbel, was the model. The mannequin was commissioned by Henry Callahan, vice president and corporate display director of Saks Fifth Avenue. It was made in 1956 for Saks Fifth Avenue, not for Gimbel Bros...
SOPHIE H. GIMBEL...
...Adel Rootstein. The Houston department store Sakowitz & Co. asked D.G. Williams & Co. to mold the boss's wife, comely Pamela Sakowitz, in plastic. With the aid of photographs and sittings, Williams created a series of plastic Pams as a display gimmick for Sakowitz windows. Not to be outdummied, Gimbel Bros, requested a model of Heiress Sophie Gimbel; Garfinckel's in Washington, D.C., asked for their well-known fashion director, Sally Frame...
Brown & Williamson Tobacco, a subsidiary of British-American Tobacco Co., has all but wrapped up a deal to pay $200 million for Manhattan-based Gimbel Brothers, one of the nation's oldest department store chains. Lloyds Bank of London plans to take over Los Angeles' First Western Bank & Trust Co. for $115 million. A battle has erupted between Norwegian Shipping Magnate Hilmar Reksten and Britain's P & O Steam Navigation Co. over Texas-based Zapata Corp., a shipping, oil and real estate conglomerate. In the midst of P & O's negotiations to buy Zapata...
This time, the human flesh proves poor bait; Gimbel and his crew ply beneath three oceans without success. But even the failures are captivating. Divers hitch rides on sea turtles; monumental schools of twitching fish gather and separate at every sudden plane of light. The water is like heavy blue air in which natural law is suspended. Time seems liquid, depth and risk meaningless-until Gimbel surfaces too quickly and doubles over with the bends. Above sea level, the film itself wears gills, fins and horns. It is amateurish and even a bit silly, with crises boyishly re-enacted...