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When he was running a fruit stand across from Kansas City's Union Depot 40 years ago, Isaac Katz sold oranges at three for a dime. "But Ike," his customers would say, "the other boys get a nickel apiece." "Yeah," Ike would answer, "but they sell one and I sell three. See what I mean?" Ike's kid brother Mike saw exactly what he meant, and soon was running another cut-rate fruit stand nearby...
Washington's National Gallery celebrated its tenth anniversary last week with a stunning exhibition of the latest art works acquired by the Croesus-rich Samuel H. Kress Foundation. In the last five years, the foundation, financed by dime-store profits, has bought 116 paintings, 18 sculptures and more than 1,300 miniature bronzes. A few of them will eventually be parceled out to museums as far away as Honolulu, but most will become part of the National Gallery's permanent collection...
...Cuernavaca, Mexico, Dime-Store Heiress Barbara Mutton, 38, filed papers to divorce husband No. 4, Prince Igor Troubetzkoy. The prince hired a San Francisco lawyer to fight the case...
...Lazaro Galdiano was a 13-year-old in his native village of Beiré, Spain, when he bought his first work of art-a terra cotta angel's head that cost less than a dime. Within a few hours, his rambunctious kid brother had smashed the piece for a joke. Jose, the son of a broke nobleman, found money hard to come by, but when he got his hands on cash he spent it on art. Through the years he became a professional art dealer and a multimillionaire, filled a palatial, 34-room house in Madrid with treasures. Last...
Potential Mr. Americas are a dime a dozen down at the Indoor Athletic Building and Dillon Field House these weekday afternoons. Ninety-eight Colleges students and 15 men from the Law School--members of the Harvard Weightlifting and Gymnastics Society--are taking exercise to develop their muscles...