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Adam Gimbel wanted to be an architect, but Gimbels have been storekeepers ever since 1842 when an earlier Gimbel started a trading post for fur trappers in Vincennes, Indiana. Adam went to Yale Architectural School for two years but he did not go into architecture. Instead, in 1915, he started to help keep the family stores. Storekeeper Horace Saks died in 1925, just after opening a store on Fifth Avenue and selling out to Gimbel Bros. Adam Gimbel's cousin Bernard made him president of Saks-Fifth Avenue. But after 17 years of storekeeping, handsome Storekeeper Adam Gimbel still...
...architect of the "Good Society" decides that the holding company . . . "is a fartuitous evolution from the condition of the law and marks a vital point at which the law was maladjusted to the economy . . . Thus the renovation of corporate law so as to prevent business from becoming any bigger than it can become in the test of the market is a necessity item on the agenda of liberalism." Mr. Lippmann does not say whether he favors the New Real's Holding Company Bill...
...that the fluttering ribbons of his eyeglasses have been in the thick of every U. S. art battle for a quarter of a century. His first wife, Marie Sterner, long a Manhattan art dealer, was among the first to introduce modern French painting to the U. S. His son, Architect Harold Sterner is a World War veteran and designer of the Helena Rubinstein beauty parlor...
...head it, the association's astute Executive Director Norma K. Stahle first tried to engage Architect Gropius. Having just accepted Harvard's invitation (TIME, Feb. 8), Gropius declined, suggested that Moholy-Nagy, then working on photography and cinema in London, was "the best man they could get." In response to a flood of cables and letters from Miss Stahle and from Gropius, chunky Moholy-Nagy finally accepted a five-year contract. Last summer, while workmen were knocking down walls in the old Marshall Field mansion and making parlors into draughting rooms, the New Bauhaus director arrived in Chicago...
...Famed Architect Frank Lloyd Wright...