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...allowed to eat in the graduate cafeteria as an alternative to having lunch in their own dorms. They are given an allotment of 80 cents per day, which was ample in the days when hamburgers were 30 cents, cottage cheese a nickel, and ice cream and fruit, only a dime...
...Elsie's, in a dramatic move Wednesday, foiled them outright and raised the price a dime. Quality stays...
...endured nearly three years, which was approaching the average time that Woolworth Heiress Barbara Mutton, 54, had spent with her six previous husbands. So naturally, when Babs left Tangiers a few weeks ago without No. 7, Laotian Prince Raymond Doan Vinh, 50, gossips assumed that the five-and-dime princess was making a change again. "Untrue," the prince said blandly during a stopover in Manhattan on the way to rejoin his wife at her $3,000,000 walled estate near Cuernavaca, Mexico. "All that gossip started in Tangiers, a small town where they have nothing else to do. Actually...
Cannon on William McKinley Lyndon Johnson keeps his ear as close to the ground as any President in history, but what mostly seems to get in his ears these days are bothersome creatures called psephologists. When his 70%-approval ratings were a dime a dozen, the President's inside coat pocket always bulged with polls, ready to be yanked out and proudly displayed at a moment's notice. Since his popularity went into a decline, he has tended to keep those polls out of view, if not quite out of mind. Last week he had a rare choice...
Died. James Paul Donahue, 51, grandson of Dime Store Magnate F. W. Woolworth and first cousin of Heiress Barbara Hutton, a lifelong bachelor who was the stereotype of the high-living, chorine-chasing playboy of the 1930s, then settled down to become a charity fund raiser and enough of an arts patron to donate $100,000 to the new Metropolitan Opera House; of visceral congestion; in Manhattan...