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Lance Reventlow, a handsome, mop-headed youth of 22, was born to money and scheduled for regular space in the Sunday supplements. The son of Woolworth Heiress Barbara Hutton and Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow of Denmark, young Lance was the pawn in one of the longest and bitterest custody fights in café society history. During the course of his tumultuously abnormal upbringing, he seemed destined to develop a taste for high life and supercharged women. Instead, he devoted his energies to fast cars. While other rich young men danced and drank the night through, Lance got his regular eleven...
...scramble for shares shows up most clearly in lower-priced stocks, which are more attractive to the public than higher-priced blue chips. When Lehman Bros, brought out its One William Street Fund at a price of $12.50, it got more shareholders in a day than F. W. Woolworth Co. (now selling for about 50) has had at any one time in its history. Last week issues selling for less than $25 a share numbered nine of the week's 15 most active stocks. Rumors of stock splits, and resulting lower prices per share, also sent higher-priced stocks...
Russia's official style of architecture has long been stuck back in the Woolworth Building era. But the design of the U.S.S.R.'s hangar-like pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair, with its glass walls and trussed cantilevers, shows that Soviet architects are striving to catch up. If they want to take some tips from American building, they have an opportunity in a handsome, 82-panel photographic display of what is best and most typical in U.S. architecture today, on view this week at Moscow University. The first exhibit of U.S. building in the U.S.S.R. since...
...Robert C. Kirkwood, 53, executive vice president since 1955 of F. W. Woolworth Co., largest U.S. variety-store chain (2,121 stores in the U.S., Canada and Cuba), was named president, succeeding James T. Leftwich, 69, who remains as chairman. Bob Kirkwood had decided on a career in pharmacy after high school, was lured away from a drugstore in his home town of Provo, Utah, by the glowing picture of dime-store opportunity painted by a local Woolworth manager. He started as a window trimmer, became a store manager in Denver at 20, soon proved to have the proper mixture...
...still buy creams containing royal jelly in some stores for $15 an ounce, but she can also buy them elsewhere for $1. Similarly, the cost of making the average lipstick is only 4?-6?, and the difference in manufacturing costs between a lipstick bought on Fifth Avenue or at Woolworth's is only about...