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Businessmen looking for clues to 1958 prospects closely watched pre-Christmas retail and auto sales. Both were encouraging. On the day after Thanksgiving, sales at Manhattan's Gimbel Bros, jumped nearly 8% above the post-Thanksgiving day last year. Chicago's State Street was so jammed with shoppers that the downtown police detail was doubled to 100 to control the crowd. In downtown Atlanta, retailers said sales were well ahead of last year. Los Angeles stores reported "very good" business...
...holy macirony." The ceremony opened with headlines screaming, TV MARRIAGE A PROBLEM, TRACK STAR'S DILEMMA. Calhoun's dilemma had been posed earlier by the Amateur Athletic Union, which charged him with "attempt to capitalize on athletic fame" and threatened his amateur standing. Cried Producer Roger Gimbel: "This is a terrible thing. The A.A.U. is intruding upon the pursuit of happiness." Gimbel also said the show would sue the A.A.U. if Calhoun lost his standing. Meanwhile, in a barnlike studio in the RCA Building, under a ceiling blanketed with klieg lights. Calhoun and his bride defied the A.A.U...
...camera. Manager Graham fumed as outside news photographers elbowed his own cameramen for choice shots. Producer Gimbel exploded because a Dairy Queen station commercial that had been dropped three days earlier got squeezed onscreen by mistake. But Executive Producer John Reddy was happy about all the publicity because the show is only partly sponsored. Perhaps he should take the late Fred Allen's advice and "save money by ordaining the announcer...
Bernard F. Gimbel LL.D...
...faith. Took mother's hand and went to Macy's where Santa Claus gave us little presents. But by the age of nine we discovered that the Santa at Gimbel's gave bigger, better things away. And any-how the line was shorter. At age twelve we moved into an apartment house so we knew damn well that this chimney-stack stuff was a farce...