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...great mass of corporations, both in & out of war work, many failed to boost gross fast enough to outrace rising costs. Typically, F. W. Woolworth turned in an alltime high of $439,009,000 in sales. Burly, shrewd Charles Wurtz Deyo, 63, Woolworth's up-from-the-ranks president, who broke the 10?-top-price tradition back in 1932, found that this backbreaking upshove in gross was not enough. Woolworth profits sank to $21,952,000 v. $23,539,000 in 1942. General Electric fared little better. It announced a record volume...
Sued for Divorce. Richard Wesley Woolworth, 45, wealthy, sports-loving nephew of 5-&-10-cent-store founder Frank Winfield Woolworth, son of onetime board chairman Charles Sumner Woolworth; by Margaret Brady Woolworth, mother of his three children, 17, 15 and 8; in Tampa...
...Ruby career moved on, he plugged songs with George Gershwin, played the piano for Irving Berlin, and accompanied Walter Winchell, who was singing at the time in a Woolworth 5-&-10? store on 14th Street. His first real break came when he got a job with a baldish music publisher and prestidigitator named Bert Kalmar. With Kalmar as collaborator, Ruby composed so many hits and Broadway musicals (Five O'Clock Girl; Animal Crackers; Helen of Troy, N.Y.; Top Speed) that Hollywood beckoned...
...Coop. By the time my pants had stopped smouldering I discovered I owned a copy of S. J.'s "Dream Department," a bottle of ink-eradicator, and twelve reams of graph paper. The ink-eradicator and the graph paper I was able to fob off on some Woolworth jobber who was loitering around the Square, but my better judgment whispered to me that the tome "Dream Department" was a priceless item, not to be offered for blood or money...
Married. Barbara Hutton, 30, Woolworth heiress ("the richest girl in the world"), and Cinemactor Archibald Alexander Leach (cinemonicker: Gary Grant), 38; she for the third time, he for the second; at Lake Arrowhead, Calif. She divorced her first husband, Georgian Prince Alexis Mdivani, in 1935, her second, Danish Count Haugwitz-Reventlow, in 1941; Grant was divorced by Cinemactress Virginia Cherrill...