Business: Gimbel v. Gimbel

If the five Gimbels who manage Gimbel Bros. Inc. (department stores) are to be thought of as a basketball team, beefy President Bernard F. Gimbel, biggest stockholder, would be captain and centre. The team's "running" forward and its nimblest basket-shooter would be Cousin Richard, 36, vice president. A Phi Beta Kappa at Yale he advertised TUTORING CLASSES DE LUXE, guaranteeing that any student who attended his five-hour lectures would pass a given course. His students paid $20 a head, lay on divans in his rooms, consumed champagne, soda pop, candies, ice cream, cigars....

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