Word: woolworths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. "Prince" Alexis Mdivani, 31; by Barbara Hutton Mdivani, 22, Woolworth heiress ($20,000,000); in Reno. Next day she married Count Kurt von Haugwitz-Reventlow, 38, handsome second son of an old Danish family. Independently rich, the Count stands to inherit a trust fund of 3,500,000 kroner ($1,575,000), six castles and estates in Denmark and a vast estate in Upper Silesia, all good dairy producers...
Seeking Divorce. "Princess" Barbara Hutton Mdivani, 22, granddaughter and heiress ($20,000,000) of the late F. W. Woolworth; from "Prince" Alexis Mdivani, 31, divorced husband of Louise Astor Van Alen. Married in 1933, they were often separated, often reported about to divorce. In London last week, whence she was about to sail for the U. S. to file suit in Reno, "Princess" Mdivani said: "We agreed to part only legally. . . . Alec to me is one of the finest men I have ever known. . . . No man could be nobler...
...Manhattan, an unidentified 18-month-old boy in a pink zipper suit turned up in a Woolworth 5-&-10? store, talking his own private language, grabbing merchandise indiscriminately. Because the customers were amused, the management let him alone until he started painting the floor with shoe polish. At the police station, he pulled plugs out of the signal switchboard, nearly wrecked the teletype machine, dined on cheese, jelly sandwiches and milk, went to sleep, awoke and prowled in the basement coal bin, found a sleeping Negro there, kicked him in the face, refused a bath. At the New York Foundling...
...Title to St. Nicholas was lately acquired by Roy Walker, an Ohioan who sold advertising for ten years for Curtis Publishing Co., went into the publishing business for himself. He bought John Martin's Book, later scrapped it. Also he issued a cookbook for distribution in Woolworth stores which has sold phenomenally. Mrs. David Stern offered her financial support to the revived St. Nicholas, but Publisher Walker accepted only her advisory assistance, in an effort to "bring the magazine up to its former standard, so that the new generation of American children may grow up with really first rate...
Only hunting cheetah in the U. S., the Donahue cheetah has no name, sleeps on his owner's bed or in a kennel. Last week, after helping publicize the dog show, the cheetah failed to return to its normal function, that of publicizing Woolworth Donahue. Instead, left to its own devices in the Donahue boathouse at Palm Beach, it quickly ran away...