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...also suffered mortal wounds in a hang-the-cost contest for supremacy be tween Houston's other two papers, the morning Post and the evening Chronicle. After all three papers went to a dime in 1961, only the Press failed to recover lost ground. Its circulation fell to 89,000 - against the Post's 225,000 and the Chronicle's 227,000. Last week both surviving papers were bidding briskly for the Press's abandoned flock with offers of free papers...
...Kentucky Derby. But the $10,900 winner's purse attracts few really promising horses. "If you enter a lot of little races, you're just spinning your wheels," says Calumet Farm's Trainer Jimmy Jones. "You can't run a racing stable on nickel-and-dime pots." And yet, there in the winner's circle, his pudgy face twisted into a gleeful grin, stood Jimmy Jones with Ky. Pioneer, which had just carried the devil's red and blue of Calumet to victory in the Hutcheson Stakes, of all races. The runner-up: Calumet...
EXPANDING a dime-store chain into the discount business has been an $80 million gamble for Harry Blair Cunningham, 56, president of S.S. Kresge Co. The gamble seems to be paying off: last week Kresge opened four more of its K-Marts, raising the total of its discount branches to 61 out of a chain of 876 stores. Detroit-based Kresge still ranks behind Woolworth...
...Morris may have to wait months along with the other claimants, before the courts decide who shall keep, who shall weep. At the moment, though, she is slightly richer from David's discovery. Mrs. Morris found a dime in the back of the police car that took her home after the cops had deposited the $21,259. They let her keep...
Stickler. Many people shrug off the lady Senator's declaration as something frivolously feminine. They don't know Maggie. Feminine she is, but not frivolous. Daughter of a barber in Skowhegan, Margaret Madeline Chase never went to college, clerked in a dime store for 100 an hour, worked on a newspaper, taught school, filled in as a night switchboard operator for the phone company. Her husband Clyde, Skow-hegan's first Republican selectman, won 48 straight elections in his lifetime, got elected to Congress in 1936. He died four years later, and Maggie took his place, winning...