Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Bernice Bowles "Fitz" Fitz-Gibbon

American Advertising Executive, Pioneer in Retail Advertising working at Marshall Field's, Macy's, Gimbels and Wanamaker's

"Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago."