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Compared with the long fame of the Eagle, the Times is unknown outside of Brooklyn. Yet the circulations of both papers are around 100,000. It was not always so. When the late Carson C. Peck, vice president of F. W. Woolworth Co., bought it in 1912, the Times was the small neighborhood organ of the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. (An early editor was William Cullen Bryant.) Mr. Peck acquired it because he was approaching the Woolworth retirement age of 60 and wanted something to do. At the same time the Eagle was practically the daily Bible of Brooklyn...
...years the "five-and-ten-cent store" has occupied a position of increasing stability in the merchandising scheme, hence has figured in joke and song ("I Found a Million Dollar Baby in a 5 & 10? Store"). But last week Hubert Templeton Parson, president of F. W. Woolworth Co., said that his red-fronted emporiums may become "5, 10 & 20? Stores." The experiment will be tried first in the West and South, then, if successful, will become permanent policy in the 1,905 Woolworth stores. Reason for the change was thought to be that lower commodity prices make available...
...Which is the Woolworth building...
...shape around them--particularly in the Gothic exterior of Pierson-Davenport College and its Georgian inner court. They helpfully offer as their own proposed Yale building a drawing of a very prettily designed small church of American colonial architecture topped with a large, ornate Gothic tower, as if the Woolworth Building had ambled down Broadway and climbed up on the top of St. Paul's Chapel. It is possible that the Yale powers-that-be will find these criticisms merely annoying. An article in the magazine, however, Sober Advice to Freshmen, by one of the editors, Richard S. Childs, should...
...editorial makeup it would be difficult for the chance reader to distinguish between the new magazines, the Woolworth and the Kresge. All are printed in gravure. stories are illustrated with posed photographs, mostly of ravishing young females, ravishing young males...