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...Greeley Square store, with its two subterranean floors of bargain basement for subway shoppers, was an immediate success. On the strength of it, Bernard Gimbel took another chance. In 1923 he negotiated with Horace A. Saks to buy Saks's 34th Street store as well as the Fifth Avenue site where Saks was planning an uptown store. The negotiations took place partly in a railroad baggage car, where the two men sat atop an empty coffin and talked business. Saks's Cadillac-class merchandise now accounts for half of Gimbel Bros.' earnings...
Died. Bernard F. Gimbel, 81, empire builder of Greeley Square; of cancer; in Manhattan (see U.S. BUSINESS...
...gloomily, Thorman foresees the possibility of an era of what he calls "Uncatholicism, in which large numbers of the faithful will live their religious lives apart from official Catholicism-not fully leaving the church, but not really participating in its life either." Chicago's priest-sociologist, Father Andrew Greeley, co-author of a major study of religious attitudes in parochial schools (TIME, July 29), estimates that perhaps 10% of the nation's Catholic university students and seminarians share this attitude. "They are the brightest, probably even the most religious of the Catholics," he concludes. "They...
Marx & Livingstone. The Herald Tribune was only 42 years old, but it traced its ancestry back more than 130 years to the founding in 1835 of the New York Herald by James Gordon Bennett Sr. and the founding in 1841 of the New York Tribune by Horace Greeley. Bennett's Herald was a lively penny paper that taught U.S. journalism to hunger for fresh news. The Herald sent boatloads of reporters to meet arriving ships at sea; by the time a ship landed they had already interviewed the passengers for European news. And it was the Herald that sent...
...When Greeley died in 1872, Whitelaw Reid, an ace Civil War reporter, took over as owner and editor of the Tribune. His son, Ogden, succeeded him in 1912, and twelve years later bought the Herald. Almost immediately, the new Herald Tribune glowed with a circulation that nearly surpassed the combined total of its two predecessors. Without stopping to start, the Trib had reached the top: a great paper serving a great city-and the world...