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Among the people Researcher Fremd has interviewed are such TIME cover subjects as Movie Magnate J. Arthur Rank; Dress Designer Sophie Gimbel; Crawford Greenewalt, president of Du Pont; Fashion Model Lisa Fonssagrives; and David Sarnoff...
...assure success at the opening. As any obeah-minded Bahamian could have predicted, this precaution worked; the ghost, one Richard Crotch in life, worked silently and invisibly to bring the necessary luck. Such corporeal visitors as Prince and Princess Alexis Obolensky, Mrs. Winston Guest, Sir Victor Sassoon, Mrs. Bernard Gimbel and Metropolitan Opera Tenor Jussi Bjoerling materialized from amphibians that made 40 nights in and out. Other guests, before and since: Danny Kaye, the Countess of Leicester, Brenda Frazier Kelly. All applauded what the ghost and Wenner-Gren had wrought. Much bucked up, the white-haired financier decided last week...
...account does this implay that we are taking sides in the dispute. WE are not trying to force the other papers into settling without full arbitration. For this reason, we have not accepted the many offers of advertising from Macy's, Gimbel's, et al. But we feel that New Yark deserves more than the bare news. Therefore, we have gathered some of Harvard's international experts, Nieman fellows (all top newsmen), and set them to work with our staff to send an analysis of today's news to New York. We hope it will show that Harvard professors...
...Bruce Alva Gimbel, 39, moved up to the presidency of Gimbel Brothers, Inc., succeeding his father, Bernard Feustman Gimbel, 68, who became chairman of the board. The third-generation Gimbel to be president since great-grandfather Adam Gimbel opened his Palace of Trade in Vincennes, Ind. 111 years ago, Bruce Gimbel started learning the business after graduation from Yale, has been vice president of Saks Fifth Avenue (a Gimbel subsidiary) since...
...Philadelphia's Gimbel Bros, department store last week, a customer asked a salesclerk: "Where do you sell apartments?" Without batting an eye, the clerk directed her to the sixth floor, where Gimbels did indeed have apartments for sale, the first department store in the U.S. to pull such a merchandising stunt. They were in a 14-story, $3,200,000 cooperative housing project to be built by the Peoples Bond & Mortgage Co. with FHA assistance, near Rittenhouse Square...