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Forty-four per cent of the senior class will receive honors and four of them will graduate summa cum laude. Those getting the highest honor that Radcliffe can confer are Margaret Stuart Bryan of Cambridge; Nancy Harriet Goldring of New York City; Laura Jane Klein of South Orange; and Catherine Lucretia Rubino of Port Chester, New York...
...Klein soon noticed that one Minneapolis customer was sending in big orders for poster paint in tiny bottles. "Being of an inquisitive nature." he went to Minneapolis and found that the paint was going into paint-it-yourself kits containing unpainted plaster figurines. Before long, Klein was making and selling so many similar sets to Woolworth and Kresge that he was the "world's biggest manufacturer of figurine kits...
Dogs & Dollars. Though he knew nothing about art, Klein soon had an idea that was even better. He hired a chart and poster man named Dan Robbins to turn out sentimental scenes of landscapes, flowers and dogs for an oil-painting kit containing a palette, paint, brushes, and a canvas printed with designs divided off into numbered sections. By just filling in the numbered areas with the correspondingly numbered paints, anyone could turn out a copy of the original picture...
...last week Klein had 800 employees in plants in Detroit, Oak Park, and Tiffin, Ohio, turning out 50,000 sets a day (retail price: $2.50 and $5.00) for a gross of more than $1,000,000 a month. This week, to meet the demand, he will lease another factory in Paterson, N.J. and add another 400 people to his payroll...
...Klein is popping with new ideas to make his business even bigger. His latest: paint-it-yourself portraits. The customer sends in a photograph and about $20 along with a completed questionnaire describing the subject's coloring. Within a week, he will get back a printed canvas divided into color areas, plus the paints needed to fill them in. Klein is sure the idea will go over big with such paint-it-yourself devotees as the Baltimore housewife who wrote him: "I am sorry I ever saw your pictures. My home is disgraceful, and I sit here...