Word: templetone
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...years the "five-and-ten-cent store" has occupied a position of increasing stability in the merchandising scheme, hence has figured in joke and song ("I Found a Million Dollar Baby in a 5 & 10? Store"). But last week Hubert Templeton Parson, president of F. W. Woolworth Co., said that his red-fronted emporiums may become "5, 10 & 20? Stores." The experiment will be tried first in the West and South, then, if successful, will become permanent policy in the 1,905 Woolworth stores. Reason for the change was thought to be that lower commodity prices make available...
...candidates for the Board of Directors of the Harvard Alumni Association are as follows: Spencer Borden, Jr. '94, of Fall River; Robert Haydock Hallowell '96, of Milton; Philip Clayton Staples '04, of Ardmore, Pennslyvania; Bernon Sheldon Prentice '05, of Rumson, New Jersey; John Reynolds '07, of New York City; Templeton Briggs '09, of Cincinnati, Ohio; Edward William Mahan '16, of New York City; Lloyd Kirkham Garrison '19; of New York City; Malcolm Whelen Greenough '25, of Boston...
...Napoleon's library, even to the three throne chairs. Looking down from the wall was a large portrait of the stern-mouthed Emperor. When in 1919 Mr. Woolworth was on his deathbed, he was pleased to know that there was a capable man to succeed him: Hubert Templeton Parson, with the company since 1892. And he would have been more pleased if he could have known that when Mr. Parson moved into the Napoleonic office he was going to take down the Emperor's picture, substitute one of the proud-eyed Founder...
...rolling in the cinders on the first turn. Southern California and Stanford between them won eight of the 15 individual championships, and ? as many points as all the rest of the colleges put together. It was an occasion on which Southern California Coach Dean Cromwell and Stanford Coach Templeton could have congratulated each other, but they...
...headed, squint-eyed, friendly, Templeton is celebrated particularly for his success with weight throwers. He once studied the leg-motions of ostriches in the hope of finding out something that would improve his sprinters. Dink Templeton writes his own newspaper copy. He prepared a story soon after last week's meet in which he called McCluskey the most courageous runner he had ever seen. He also said: "His [Graber's] five points, three and four-fifths more than Bert De-Groot took with his tie for third, provided the decisive blow which killed father...