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...this is like getting married all over again!" Announced was a "trial reconciliation," dated to run till Sept. 29-day of the Nova fight. ∙ ∙ To Barbara Hutton, in Los Angeles, wired Cinemactor Cary Grant, in Mexico City: "The weather is fine and the scenery wonderful." Promptly the Woolworth heiress flew to the border, set off Mexico Citywards in an air-conditioned limousine with a friend, a chauffeur, a maid, a bodyguard. Her agent announced: "It is not an elopement." ∙ ∙ Gilt-haired Evangelist A'imee Semple McPherson, thrice-married, twice-divorced, approved a new bylaw adopted...
Soon many of Detroit's 400,000 school kids were running about with defense-stamp albums. Next the large chain stores-A. & P., Kroger, Woolworth, Penney, etc.-hung out red, white & blue signs, began selling stamps like cigarets. The Cunningham Drug chain spent $1,600 on newspaper ads, nearly burst with patriotism when daily bond sales in its 125 Michigan stores hit $750. Kroger's eight Lansing stores rang up $80 daily. Last week 12,500 Michigan stores were selling bonds; by mid-September there...
After spraying the notes with F. W. Woolworth's elegant "Eau de Harvard Square," the committee distributed them throughout the Yard last night. Having set the Jubilee date at May 23, the committee will reopen their publicity campaign after vacation with the announcement of the band for the affair. At the moment several prominent orchestras are being considered but no decision has been reached...
...tobacco business in 1912, puttered around for seven years before starting a company to make cigaret foil. Effervescent Richard Reynolds likes to compose poetry while shaving, is now writing a book "to keep sane." Often he lets his enthusiasm overtake his business acumen, once bought the white elephant Woolworth estate on Long Island. But Reynolds Metals blossomed. He revolutionized the packaging business, won prizes with Canada Dry and Hoffman Beverage labels, made Reynolds Metals tops in the foil-making field...
...Woolworth Co., with its highest sales volume on record ($335,474,820), reported its lowest net income ($24,104,815) since dismal 1932. Besides a $2,400,000 tax increase, the company suffered a $3,317,900 decline in earnings from its British subsidiary...