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Parachutes and Stockings. Primemover behind this rise that carried the eleven-store Gimbel chain ahead of arch-rival R. H. Macy & Co. as well as Federated Department Stores and May Department Stores, is greying Bernard Feustman Gimbel, 59, robust, genial patriarch of the Gimbel clan. He had a hunch that the war would boom retail sales. So he turned his buyers loose with instructions to order all they could of consumer goods which would be among the first casualties...
...certain member of the clan isn't from Pittsburgh; how come his nickname Intimates as much? By the way, according to schedule this column and the Christmas watch list should come out the same day. All the good news at once, oh, fellows...
...Most of all," says daughter Katrin, "I remember Mama," Mama is kind, firm, and resourceful, and has four children to look after. There are Katrin, the oldest, who wants to be a writer; Christine, blonde, the prettiest member of the clan; Nels, the young man of the house; and Dagmar, the precocious, animal-loving seven-year-old girl. Naturally, Mama doesn't want her children to fear poverty, so she invents a neat little myth about a bank account. But of course, no one ever "goes to the bank" because Mama always figures a way out of every emergency...
Biggest news of the moment is a gathering of the clan scheduled for Saturday afternoon in the Lowell House Common Room from 4 to 7 o'clock. Charley Vinal's Rhythm Kings will be there and "Mezz" Mezzrow is planing in from New York where be is currently featured with Art Hodes at Ryan's on 52nd Street. Those who attend the Bates game in the stadium are cordially invited to drop over after the last whistle and hear Harvard's first big-time live jam session since last September...
...mighty Lobengula, last of the Zulus' great Matabele kings (TIME, Jan. 10); after 15 years of silence; near Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. Educated in England through the good offices of Cecil Rhodes, he returned to South Africa to find that the elders of the royal house (the Kamalo Clan) disapproved of him and his newfound ways. He went into seclusion, read English classics, refused to speak either his native tongue or English...