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...What did Rudolph Valentino, William Dean Howells and Frank W. ("5 & 10?") Woolworth have in common...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz, Jan. 29, 1934 | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

These fragments are parts of poems, stories, captions printed last week in a new national magazine for children. Tiny Tower, published by Tower Magazines, Inc., is to be sold, like the four other Tower products (Home, Mystery, New Movie, Love) in Woolworth stores for 10?. In addition to stories about cats, pictures of Puppety Pops and verses with dangerous rhymes, the first issue of Tiny Tower contained a page of jokes and puzzles, a page of magic tricks, cut-out patterns, innumerable marginal drawings and an advertisement, on the back page, for Royal typewriters. Because Tower executives believe that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Tiny Tower | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

...Mdivani, 21; Archduke Otto of Habsburg, 21*, With her new husband, "Prince" Alexis Mdivani, Princess Barbara returned to the U. S. for a birthday party arranged last week by her amiable father, and to receive legally a third of the estate of her late grandfather, Frank Winfield (5? & 10?) Woolworth-about $20,000,000, protected by a marriage contract drawn up by wary Hutton lawyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 27, 1933 | 11/27/1933 | See Source »

...many cases the pins doubtless worked, saved their wearers from instant Nazi assault for failure to salute passing Storm Troop banners. But one day last week in the smoky Ruhr metropolis of Dusseldorf, inoffensive Roland Velz, a U. S. citizen and superintendent of a group of Germany's Woolworth stores, went walking, pinless, with his wife. Cheering Dusseldorfers stood massed along the curbstone six deep as a Storm Battalion marched past, grim-faced with blaring horns and throbbing drums. Mr. & Mrs. Velz, as they edged down the sidewalk behind the packed standees failed to salute the Storm Troop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Assaults and Indignities | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

...Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. testified in the Food Code hearing that the temporary blanket code had forced them to add 12,000 employes, the yearly payroll by $10,000,000. . . Woolworth last week was reported it was beginning to hire smarter, wage-worthy salesgirls who would actually sell, not simply make change, wrap packages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Codes for Counters | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

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