Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James T. Leftwich, 64, who has been with the F. W. Woolworth Co. for 40 of the dime-store chain's 75 years, becomes its new president next month. Leftwich joined Woolworth's Chicago office in 1913, became an accountant in 1916 and worked his way up through the comptroller's and treasurer's branches. The company's financial expert, he will take over from...
...Lincoln Tunnel makes a dime every time a car goes through. How much money do you think Lamont's front door makes every morning? And who gets it? Deserving young athletes? Oh, no. That blonde in the front office, my fines alone paid for all the furniture in her Beacon Street apartment...
...demands from $5, $500,000 to $10,000,000. Countered Bobo, through a friend: Nonsense. The settlement offer which Winthrop made last October and she returned for "consideration of new terms not involving money" was revised and has now been accepted. Moreover, said Bobo, she had not got a dime from her husband since October. Rockefeller's lawyer promptly waved a $2,500 check, endorsed by Bobo, which he said she accepted as a "Christmas gift" to Winthrop Jr., 5, in December. Replied Bobo: even now, a cruel Man hattan merchant was trying to repossess her $100 vacuum cleaner...
...Manhattan hotel suite where she began a honeymoon with her fifth husband, Dominican Diplomat-Playboy Porfirio ("Rubi") Rubirosa, five & dime Heiress Barbara Mutton tumbled and broke her left ankle. At her side, bearing up nobly, Rubi was consoled a bit on hearing that the Dominican Republic had reinstalled him at his Paris diplomatic post, which had been yanked out from under him last month. To cheer Porfirio further, the Custom Tailors Guild of America announced that he had beaten out President Eisenhower in a poll of its members to choose America's best-dressed man. Said a Guild official...
Married. Barbara Hutton, 41, five & dime heiress; and Porfirio Rubirosa. 44, Dominican playboy-diplomat; she for the fifth time, he for the fourth; in Manhattan (see INTERNATIONAL...