Word: woolworths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austro-Hungarian Empire by Emperor Franz Josef, and thereafter showed more interest in collecting art than in making steel. At 60 he divorced his Baroness and married a Berlin mannequin, who was later severely injured in the motor accident in which Prince Serge Mdivani, ex-husband of Woolworth Heiress Barbara Hutton, was killed. The youngest, August Jr., became embittered at his father and had visions of founding an industrial empire of his own. Father August ran Son August into bankruptcy, and the son retaliated by contributing to the funds of striking workers at his father's plant...
...public notice column of the New York Herald Tribune appeared three lines: "I am no longer responsible for any debts incurred by my wife. . . ." It was signed by Franklin Laws Hutton, father of Woolworth Heiress Countess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow, concerned his second wife, Irene Curley Bodde Hutton. Meanwhile, back to the U. S. for a home-made divorce came Daughter Barbara and her son Lance, whose ship companions included legally separated Husband Court Haugwitz-Reventlow and Barbara's rumored choice for a third husband, Robert Sweeny, amateur golfer & investment broker. On the dock Countess Barbara was greeted...
...never heard of St. Nicholas, many a grown-up had forgotten it still existed. But alive it was, though senescent. Last week St. Nicholas, 66 years old, withdrew its foot from the grave, took a new lease on life, and went on sale exclusively in 112 F. W. Woolworth stores as a picture magazine for elementary grade-school children...
...Nicholas passed into the hands of stocky, dynamic President Roy Walker of Educational Publishing Corp. Publisher Walker wanted it as a classroom adjunct to The Grade Teacher, trade journal for educators. Then last year Woolworth's began to look around for new magazines to replace the 5-&-10?store Tower Group, which had just sunk in a morass of financial trouble and scandal...
...successor to Tiny Tower, St. Nicholas went into Woolworth stores last week. Its price was cut from 25? to 10?. It sported a bright two-color format like Tiny Tower's. Oldtime readers of St. Nicholas would never have recognized its pages, filled with crude, bold drawings of camels and hippopotamuses and monkeys, pictures to be cut out and mounted, nursery fables in the style of Thornton Burgess...