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Under an agreement made with Chicago World's Fair officials, Al Simmons, Jimmy Dykes. "Red" Kress consented to try for a world's catching championship by catching baseballs thrown to them from the top of a 625-foot Sky Ride tower (see p. 14). When a mathematician found that the balls would be traveling 136.80 miles an hour, would strike with an impact of 6,604 foot pounds, White Sox Owner Louis A. Comiskey refused to risk his players...
Supplementing previous gifts for the restoration of Italian antiquities, art-loving Merchant Samuel Henry Kress (5-10-25¢ chain) gave Premier Mussolini $10,500 to complete the rebuilding of Mantua's Ducal Palace...
Besides insisting that he had no advance knowledge of his competitor's plans, Publisher Delacorte pointed to three prime differences between his magazine and Macfadden's: 1) Children's Magazine will be sold not on newsstands, but exclusively in Kresge and Kress chainstores (like his Modern Screen, Modern Romances); 2) it will not be edited by the wife of a famed politician but by "John Martin," editor of John Martin's Book ("The Child's Magazine"); 3) it will not be addressed to parents, with advice on infant-raising, but to readers aged 5 to 8. Explained Publisher Delacorte...
...enable Woolworth to compete more with department stores. The 20? articles will be mostly in china and glassware. The move will throw Woolworth into much hotter competition with the chains which have hitherto resembled Woolworth stores but have not had a 10? limit, including S. S. Kresge, S. H. Kress, McLellan, F. & W. Grand-Silver, W. T. Grant and Schulte-United Stores...
...Stones which Publisher Delacorte claims opened that particular field in which 22 competitors appeared in two years. In the next ten years Publisher Delacorte started and discarded about 20 magazines besides the 14 which now comprise his list.* Modern Screen and Modem Romances he publishes for sale in Kresge & Kress chainstores and on newsstands in towns without those stores...