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Soon after he came to the U.S. from Spain in 1924, Painter Julio de Diego found himself with exactly 25^ to his name. He paid a dime for a ride to the top of the Woolworth Building (then the world's tallest), and gaily flung the other 15^ over Manhattan's skyline. Says De Diego: "I wanted to start from scratch...
...sold all the C. & O. stock held by his Alleghany Corp. to Old Friend Cyrus S. Eaton, Cleveland industrialist and a longtime fellow castigator of New York banking interests. Young also sold his own C. & O. holdings, as did a small group of men around Young, including wealthy. Dime Store Heir Allan P. Kirby. Young also turned over his job as chairman of the C. & O. board to Eaton whose C. & O. holdings, with the 104,854 shares bought from Alleghany, swelled to 205,854 shares. Young, Kirby and four other C. & O. directors resigned from the board. This left...
...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...
...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...