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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roszika Dolly, of the once-famed Dolly Sisters, who danced from World War I right on through the '20s, survived a derailment of the Santa Fe's Super Chief near Raton, N.Mex. The car she was in overturned; Roszika, now Mrs. Irving Netcher, and 54, broke her left arm. Police fished through the wreckage and recovered her jewels-about $300,000 worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 21, 1947 | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...object of this Elbert Hubbard rhapsody was Mrs. Mollie Netcher Newbury. He might better have compared her to Hetty Green. From her huge office, bare except for a big rolltop desk and green velvet couch, Mrs. Newbury had run Chicago's Boston Store for 42 years with a hand as firm as it was unknown. So doing, she had become a State Street legend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: End of a Legend | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...silent as Ulysses S. Grant. . . . She is as wise as Benjamin Franklin and just as self contained. . . . Napoleon fought his battles with his marshals and so does Mrs. Netcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: End of a Legend | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...taken to business the way most women take to marriage. That had attracted her first husband, Charles Netcher. A silent, fantastically hard-working man, he had lashed himself from a $1.50-3-week job to ownership of the Boston Store by working 18 hours a day, sleeping on store-counters at night so as to save time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: End of a Legend | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

Noting that one Mollie Alpiner, the store's buyer of knit underwear, was as shrewd and diligent a worker as he, Charles Netcher married her in 1891. They had four children (none of the three still living has any interest in the store), but business came first. Once Mrs. Newbury commented: "We talked business just as other people talk love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: End of a Legend | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

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