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Three years ago this month four of Adam Gimbel's descendants journeyed to the mellow, elm-shaded town of Vincennes, Ind. (pop. 18,228). There they commemorated the 100th anniversary of the opening of Peddler Adam's wondrous "Palace of Trade," with the prediction: "The best 100 years lie ahead." Last week the Gimbel mercantile dynasty proudly ended its best year. The gross for 1944 was estimated at an alltime high of upwards of $190 million. Result: Gimbel's, in fourth place in 1942, is now the leading metropolitan department store chain...
...through which the character is supposed to be moving at a given moment, about what he ate for lunch, about the time of day and how tired the character would be by then, about the situation-whether in a damp 19th-Century dining room or out in a mellow garden...
...Brooks once wrote of Llewelyn Powys, who recovered from tuberculosis, that he was like a hare that had escaped the hunter, or a trout that had escaped the hook "and now exults in the sun-soaked earth and windswept water." The phrase is truer of his own writing. The mellow humor that pervades it and the good-natured approval of the people, of their work, their strivings, the pleasure in their triumphs, the sympathy with their struggles and hardships, give his books life and animation on subjects and people that had been synonymous with academic dullness and highbrow hairsplitting...
...friends do, and because of Sarah Taylor (Tessa Brind), the gentle, neglected child next door. Both get into bad company (Bonita Granville and some able supporters). Both "have ugly moments with their parents and at a drinking joint, and in an attempt at larceny, both are redeemed through a mellow juvenile-court judge and through kinfolk who, on a modest scale, set up every delinquency-preventive, from a kindergarten to machinist's training...
...Paris had lost its Ile Saint-Louis and Place des Vosges, or Vienna its Hofburg and its Opera House on the Ringstrasse. For the mellow buildings near the Ponte Vecchio, on either side of the Arno, formed one of the most cherished views in the world. Most of that crowded, encrusted skyline is now gone. "Palace after palace, dating from the 14th to the 16th Century, are heaps of rubble. In the wreckage lie such things as the ancient manuscripts, books and art objects of the Societa Colombaria. . . ."* Total or heavy destruction included...