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Most collectors who spend a lifetime accumulating works of art prefer to see them set like jewels in the crown of a single, favored museum. Manhattan's Samuel H. Kress, 89-year-old dime-store tycoon, is one big collector who would rather spread his masterpieces around. In 1939 he gave 375 Renaissance paintings to Washington's National Gallery of Art (TIME, July 24, 1939). Since then, museums in Philadelphia, Tucson, Birmingham, Honolulu, Portland (Ore.). Seattle and Kansas City (Kans.) have been quietly handed some 200 masterpieces from the Kress treasure-trove, with no strings attached...
...next few years brought Dawes a son and daughter, success as a lawyer, choice property purchases, and a directorship of the leading Lincoln bank. When the panic of '93 struck, no depositor of the Lincoln bank lost a dime, but Dawes had to borrow $200,000 to keep the bank afloat...
...next month of a hearing aid the size of a cigarette lighter which weighs only 2½ oz. Three germanium transistors take the place of vacuum tubes for amplification, and in place of conventional batteries, Transist-Ear's power comes from a mercury capsule the size of a dime, good for 75 hrs. Replacement capsules cost about 25?. Price: around...
...York's World-Telegram and Sun, Edward J. Mowery, 46, is known as a "singleminded" reporter who never lets go of a story once he gets hold of it. Six years ago Mowery got hold of the case of Louis Hoffner, a dime-store clerk sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a New York City tavern owner in a holdup. Mowery heard about the case as the result of another good piece of reporting; he had just dug up evidence to help free Bertram M. Campbell, a Wall Street customer's man convicted of forgery...
Something Old, Something New. The toymakers have turned out the greatest variety of playthings in history, added many a new refinement to oldtime favor ites. There are Humpty Dumpties for a dime, giant elephants for more than $100, Teddy bears, now celebrating their 50th anniversary, that are chemically treated to keep them free of dust. Dolls do just about everything (eat, burp, nibble fin gers, frown, pucker lips, blow soap bubbles, wet, wail, walk, and recite verse...