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About a year ago portly, wealthy William Brown, vice president and general counsel of Radio Corporation of America, was visited in his Manhattan Woolworth Building office by a suave stranger as yet unidentified. The stranger thought Lawyer Brown would be interested in buying some stock in American Social Registry, Inc., publishers of a "Directory of American Society"* and also of the bi-weekly Town Topics, self-styled "Journal of Society." Lawyer Brown, a graduate of West Point, a businessman of good repute, a onetime Chicago rail-road counsel, wanted no stock. Fortnight later Town Topics printed an insinuating story...
...National Academy of Design, U. S. Art's most venerable institution, last week opened the chaste doors of its annual exhibition just after the Academy's president, white-haired Architect Cass Gilbert (Woolworth Building) had faced a radio microphone and announced...
Died. Earle Perry Charlton, 67, vice president of F. W. Woolworth Co.; in Acoaxet, Mass...
Awarded. To Cass Gilbert, Manhattan architect, by the Society of Arts & Sciences: its 1931 gold medal for architectural achievement; for designing the Woolworth Building (completed 1912), "contributing most conspicuously to the modern movement in architecture...
Like Tower Magazines Inc., the Dell Company is emphatic that its magazines "stand on their own feet," that they are offered just like any other merchandise in Kress and Kresge stores, which do not guarantee their sale. Also like the Woolworth group, the Dell magazines already give promise of gathering bountiful advertising from makers of goods retailed by Kress and Kresge. E. g.: An inside cover advertisement for hair nets with the legend, "Sold exclusively at S. S. Kresge...