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...what do you know. He's not selling marijuana. Fact of the matter is, he's selling clothespins. Or rather, he wants you to go to Woolworth's and buy a bag of clothespins and then wanders around Cambridge clipping them on to things...
...splitlog benches, dogwood trees and primrose bushes delighted the enchanted while only a whiff away peddlers hawked scented sachets and the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The New York Botanical Garden's 500-ft. tropical rain garden, adorned with a climbing cissus vine and rock pool, was back to back with Woolworth's counter, where salesgirls touted 880 packages of Venus Fly Trap, billed as "Nature's Magic Toy," which "Catches insects! Eats hamburger!" At the huge Kodak garden there were nervous flamingos and the Kodak "Smile Girl," who gradually wilted as she tried to keep her cheeks puffed...
Critics argue that the Dow-Jones is inflated, exaggerated and inaccurate-and they are partly right. It is the sum of only 30 selected stocks, ranging alphabetically from Allied Chemical to Woolworth; that sum is then divided by a divisor (currently 2.245) to adjust for past stock splits and dividends. Not only is the Dow a severely limited gauge of the 1,625 stocks on the Big Board, but it gives undue power to higher-priced stocks. Example: Du Pont is only one-sixth the size of General Motors, but carries more than twice as much weight...
...lady crackled, "To hell with the money. I want my husband's jewels back." Since she scarcely counts all her fives and dimes, Woolworth Heiress Barbara Mutton, 53, could afford to be cavalier about the cash. Anyway, the thieves who broke into her $1,500,000 mansion near Cuernavaca, Mexico, took only $20,240-and most of that was in traveler's checks. What burned Babs was that they footpadded off with the "irreplaceable" jewel collection of her seventh husband, Laotian Prince Raymond Doan Vinh Na Champassak. The princess felt so sentimental about the necklace with the gold...
...companies now have more than 3,000 subsidiaries in Europe, and the percentage of big ones bossed by local citizens has risen to 40% in Italy, 55% in Britain and 65% in West Germany. Such giants as Woolworth, Singer, Eastman Kodak and National Cash Register make a point of manning all their top posts with Europeans. More and more Europeans are being promoted to high commands in Jersey Standard, Corn Products, Socony Mobil and U.S. Rubber. What these companies have brought forth is an urbane and multilingual group of managers who combine European emotions with U.S. business methods- and make...